Mornings with Jesus

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I SPENT FOUR DECADES PRAYING a prayer Jesus didn’t want to answer. My prayer was framed by what I knew was possible, not by reliance on the limitless creativity of Jesus. The always faithful One knew He should ignore my idea and go with His own plan!

60 Days of Prayer

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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. HEBREWS 12:11 (NIV) IF YOU HAVE been praying for something for a long time, ask yoursel

JOY Magazine

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Many Christians in South Africa and beyond were inspired when Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng called for three minutes of meditation or prayer for the nation in parliament recently, and then knelt down to pray. In an interview with Andre Viljoen, the C

60 Days of Prayer

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But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. MATHEW 6:6 (ESV) WHEN YOU ARE having a rough time, invite God’s glorious presence into your heart.

Mornings with Jesus

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RECENTLY I HAD TO MAKE a difficult career decision. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t stepping out of the will of God by trying to escape an arduous assignment for something easier. I prayed, asking Jesus to make the decision for me. Shortly after prayi

Los Angeles Times

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LAS VEGAS - Civic and faith leaders gathered before a bank of television cameras Monday night for a prayer vigil outside Las Vegas City Hall, the speakers standing on a podium with a banner that read #VegasStrong. In many ways, the gathering was as m

Mornings with Jesus

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MY SON, JACK, IS AN asker extraordinaire. He is persistent when it comes to asking my husband, Scott, or me for something that he needs or wants. And while he uses steady pressure applied on a daily basis, his approach varies. There is the gentle ask

Mornings with Jesus

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THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE email grabbed my attention. “How do we pray about our chronic illness?” A reader had reached out to me for guidance. I know how to pray when there is a short-term need, and Jesus either provides the answer, guides in a tangibl

Chicago magazine

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How can prayer help anxiety? Prayer helps us get perspective. It’s very interesting that Jesus says, “Give us our daily bread. Help us forgive.” His advice is to imagine yourself as part of something larger. Because anxiety isolates, and you end up f

NPR

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"We all believe in science, and we also believe in faith," says the principal investigator.

Mornings with Jesus

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I HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY COLOR-BLIND since birth, so I see the world like a black-and-white movie. Attending a class at church about using coloring to deepen my prayer life might seem like an odd choice for me. But when I saw the blurb for Colorful Pra

Mornings with Jesus

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YEARS AGO, I WAS AT one of the lowest points of my life, weighed down by family and personal problems. Prayer support from friends kept me going, but I felt so useless, unfit for ministry—like I had nothing to offer anyone. During the three-hour driv

Mornings with Jesus

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MY DAD HAD ALREADY BEEN diagnosed with congestive heart failure and had suffered two massive strokes when his doctor diagnosed him with advanced prostate cancer and lung fibrosis. I lived nearly a thousand miles from my parents for most of my adultho

JOY Magazine

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Drummond’s Bar began construction on an expansion of their building to increase their business. In response, the local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up until the we

Woman's Day

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Trust that your prayers have been heard and answered. Your angels are asking you to be open and extra observant. Divine answers, healing and the miracles you’ve been praying for will arrive at the perfect time in unexpected ways. You are being gent

Guideposts

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60 Days of Prayer

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...Pray continually.... 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17 NIV PASTOR E. M. Bounds said, “Importunate praying is the earnest, inward movement of the heart toward God. It is the throwing of the entire force of the spiritual man into the exercise of prayer.” Do not

60 Days of Prayer

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To You, O Lord, I call; My rock, do not be deaf to me. For if You are silent to me, I will become like those who go down to the pit. PSALM 28:1 (NASB) SOMETIMES IN YOUR prayer life it might seem as if God is quiet—that maybe He is not present or hea

Sunday Independent

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ThE event hosted by the Gauteng Provincial Government in Tembisa last week could most probably have gone unnoticed hadn’t Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, prayed a fervent prayer that rocked the foundations of the establishment. The chief justice pray

MEGA

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We’ve been given this time to reflect and reset. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Each day I write down my intentions and try to make myself better, physically, mentally and spiritually. I gained three takeaways from this experience. First, I’ve

60 Days of Prayer

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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. JOHN 15:7 (ESV) THE MORE TIME you spend in prayer, reading the Bible and considering your purpose in life, the more blessings and benefits you will re

Deer & Deer Hunting

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If you have followed our online videos or D&DH-TV on Pursuit Channel over the years, you might know that I am not shy when it comes to professing my faith. It’s just who I am, how I was raised, and what I believe deep down in my heart. This is usuall

Mornings with Jesus

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MY SISTER AND I SAT in the loud football stadium, watching my son play his final season in high school. To take my mind off how big his opponents were—and the fact that he was playing offense, defense, and on special teams—we began to talk about funn

Sunday Tribune

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Q: I AM an avid follower of your column. Please advise me of my financial and health issues and general overall wellness. As much as the Covid-19 pandemic has caused worldwide destruction I seem to be going through my own financial problems from long

Mornings with Jesus

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“WORD OF THE YEAR” IS a popular practice these days. With God’s help, you choose a word for the upcoming year, and then focus on living that word for the next twelve months. This year I chose the word “rest.” But a few months into the year I started

Mornings with Jesus

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MY MOM WAS RIGHT WHEN she said, “You never stop mothering.” Even as a mother of adult sons, I’m tempted to manage them, but I know I need to let them figure out their own lives. Especially as they struggle with adult issues such as heartbreak, career

Mornings with Jesus

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THIS PAST YEAR, MY PRAYER life has taken a remarkable turn with profound impact on my life. I hope it shows in these pages. I’ve always prayed. Well, before I knew Jesus, I prayed with fervent expectation that God heard me, even after my prayers were

Mega Man

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We’ve been given this time to reflect and reset. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Each day I write down my intentions and try to make myself better, physically, mentally and spiritually. I gained three takeaways from this experience. First, I’ve

The Christian Science Monitor

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Mayor Steve Williams of Huntington, West Virginia, took an innovative approach that’s become a model for fighting drug addiction.

Mornings with Jesus

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WHEN MY SISTER AND DAD heard the same radio sermon separately and felt prompted to pray for my former husband, I knew I should do the same. I confess that I fought the side of me that felt justified in leaving him off my prayer list. He’d abandoned m