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Tracy
11/16/2025
9:51:29 AM MST

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MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON

Who then is the faithful and wise servant? (Matt. 24:45)

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies:
wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His Word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline. (Oswald Chambers)

PRAY ABOUT IT: The word discipline bothers us when applied to certain activities --- like prayer. We want to think of ourselves as such sensitive pray-ers that we will pray often enough if we just wait until the Spirit moves us. The truth is, sometimes we need to move ourselves into our prayer closets --- by the napes of our necks if necessary --- and get down to business. If we don't like the word discipline, we can substitute the word faithfulness.
Are we going to be faithful servants? Will we determine to win the battle against both the wandering thoughts that plague us in prayer and also the lack of intimacy with God that prayerlessness begets?
Be disciplined in prayer today. Be faithful.

You are not the only one troubled by wandering thoughts. Our mind constantly wanders, but our will is the mistress of our faculties and must recall the mind and bring it back to God as often as necessary. (Brother Lawrence)


Tracy
11/9/2025
7:09:36 AM MST

Morgellons - Continuous Thanks Tracy!!!
Continuous Thanks Tracy!!!

MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON

God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that
He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has
He spoken, and will He not make it good? Numbers 23:19

Remember that faith is not a strange sensation that comes over you in rare moments, a magic thrill from something in
the minister's voice, a mystic trance to be reached once in a while, then lost for weeks or years. It is a sturdy confidence that God will keep His promises, confidence enough to walk out on them and live there, although the world expects them to crack and crumble under you any day. (Vance Havner)

PRAY ABOUT IT: Refuse to allow your feelings to measure the effectiveness of your prayers. God does not put you in a trance nor give you outward signs that you've been heard. Further, such dependencies are the enemy of faith. Faith is the sturdy confidence that you've been heard, based on God's promise in His Word.
Satan is a master when it comes to orchestrating feelings in Christians. He loves it when we get those goose-bump sensations, because he knows that when they leave, we'll assume we're no longer connected to God.
This doesn't mean that we're to leave our emotions outside the prayer-room door, rather it means that emotions such as joy, tears, love, or excitement may follow our prayers
but they may never lead our prayers or offer us proof that we've been heard.

Stop considering your emotions and simply regard your will, which is the real king in your being. Is your will open to God?
Does your will decide to believe? Does your will choose to obey? If this is the case, then you are in the Lord's hands.
(Hannah Whitall Smith)


Tracy
11/2/2025
6:12:54 AM MST

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Thank You Tracy

31 DAYS OF PRAISE ENJOYING GOD ANEW
By Ruth Myers with Warren Myers

DAY 26

Father, I praise You that Jesus is Victor over Satan and all his evil powers --- that He triumphed over them through the Cross and Resurrection and that You have highly exalted Him. You have given Him a position infinitely superior to all other powers and authorities ... a name that stands far above all other names that will ever be used. (Colossians 2:15;
Ephesians 1:19-21; Philippians 2:9-10; Eph. 2:6)

How I praise You that I need not strive toward a possible victory, but can live from a position of victory already won
that He who is in me (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) is greater than he who is in the world ... that although Satan is powerful
he CANNOT prevail against the blood of the Lamb and the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!! Thank You that Satan must retreat before that Name and before Your Word, the living and powerful sword of the Spirit, and that in the end he will be cast down into everlasting defeat and shame. (1John 4:4;
Revelation 12:11; Acts 16:18; Eph. 6:17; Revelation 20:10)

What a joy to know that You are the same today as You were centuries ago in Isaiah's day, when You promised to rescue
Your people in a hopeless looking situation, when the enemy seemed to have prevailed. How I love the words You spoke to them: "Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.... Even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away, and the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; For I will contend with the one who contends with you, and I will save your sons." I praise You that I can count on You to do this in our spiritual warfare, and that through You we shall do valiantly, for You will trample down our enemies.
(Isaiah 49:23-25; Psalm 108:13)



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