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Tracy 9/6/2026 11:45:06 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 3:14 NKJV) Pray distinctly. Pray upon your knees. One grows tired sometimes of the free thought which is yet perfectly true, that a man can pray anywhere and anyhow. But men have found it good to make the whole system pray. Kneel down, and the very bending of these obstinate and unused knees of yours will make the soul kneel down in the humility in which it can be exalted in the sight of God. (Phillips Brooks) PRAY ABOUT IT: Kneeling has become the traditional pose for prayer. The prophet Daniel knelt as he prayed, as did many other great pray-ers of the faith. William Newell said that kneeling is a good way to pray, precisely because it's uncomfortable (it's hard to fall asleep on one's knees). Of course we can pray in any position, but today we will kneel, if physically possible. The bending of the knees to God is a picture of our broken strength. It signifies surrender, as do uplifted hands. Pray distinctly to God today. And do so with surrender in your heart and in your knees. Then drink from the great fountain of God. Is there any place in any of our rooms where there is a little bit of carpet worn white from our knees? (Alexander MacLaren) A Christian who kneels before God will stand before men. (Leonard Ravenhill) | |||
Tracy 8/29/2026 9:01:27 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy. Philippians 1:4 Do let us believe that God's call to much prayer need not be a burden and cause of continual self-condemnation. He means it to be a joy! He can make it an inspiration, giving us strength for all our work, and bringing down His power to work through us in our fellowmen. (Andrew Murray) PRAY ABOUT IT: Sometimes we miss our prayer time. We get busy and go about our day and our prayers are unsaid. It happens. But when it happens, God never condemns us nor inflicts guilt on us. We do that our- selves. Prayer is the joyous burden and is meant to add to our lives, not subtract. If you've missed days of praying and have felt condemned, then you must change your thinking. Pray on in joy and forget your failures! God does. Faith cancels all that is past, and there is no condemnation to thee. (John Wesley) | |||
Tracy 8/22/2026 8:15:13 AM MST |
STREAMS IN THE DESERT by L.B. COWMAN Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. (John 20:29) How important it is for God to keep us focused on things that are unseen, for we are easily snared by the things we can see! If Peter was ever going to walk on the water, he had to walk, but if he was going to swim to Jesus, he had to swim. He could not do both. If a bird is going to fly, it must stay away from fences and trees, trusting the buoyancy of its wings. And if it tries to stay within easy reach of the ground, it will never fly very well. God had to bring Abraham to the end of his own strength and let him see that with his own body he could do nothing. He had to consider his own body "as good as dead" (Heb. 11:12) and then trust God to do all the work. When he looked away from himself and trusted only God, he became "fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised" (Romans 4:21). This is what God is teaching us, and He has to keep results that are encouraging away from us until we learn to trust Him without them. Then He loves to make His Word as real to us in actuality as it is in our faith. (A.B. Simpson) I do not ask that He must prove His Word is true to me. And that before I can believe He first must let me see. It is enough for me to know It's true because He says it's so. On His unchanging Word I'll stand And trust till I can understand. (E.M. Winter) | |||
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