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Tracy 9/6/2025 12:51:53 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON May the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful. PSALM 68:3 He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. (William Law) PRAY ABOUT IT: With all our current material prosperity, there are still people with serious problems and no solution in sight. It won't take long today until you pass someone who has been robbed of happiness by the troubles they face. Maybe you're such a person. And yet, is there really such a thing as an unhappy prayer warrior? Prayer, rightfully defined, brings victory. Happiness is built into prayer, and a by-product of personal holiness, but it's elusive to those who are caught up in the pursuit of riches or who try to solve their problems with worldly wisdom. Today, share the secret of happiness through prayer with someone who needs to know. Some people near you today are seeking the very answer you possess. This is a secret that is best unkept. How much needless care would we save ourselves if we but believed in prayer as the means of relieving those cares, and would learn the happy art of casting all our cares in prayer upon God. (E.M. Bounds) | |||
Tracy 8/31/2025 7:02:27 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON You ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." James 4:15 Be slow to take new steps in the Lord's service, or in your business, or in your families. Weigh everything well; all in the light of the Holy Scriptures, and in the fear of God. Seek to have no will of your own, in order ascertain the mind of God, regarding any steps you propose to take, so that you can honestly say, you are willing to do the will of God, if He will only please to instruct you. But when you have found out what the will of God is, seek for His help, and seek it earnestly, perseveringly, patiently, believingly, and expectingly: and you will surely, in His own time and way, obtain it. (George Mueller) PRAY ABOUT IT: Today is a day for taking inventory. What is our work? Is it God's choice for us, or our own choosing? Has it been fruitful? Is it time to move on? Or are we indeed exactly where God wants us? Far too often we don't move forward because we don't take time to reflect on our lives. Then when we are old we wonder how we missed God's call to something better. And make no mistake, if God's calling you to move on, it's to something better. But don't move hastily --- that's as big a mistake as staying too long. Simply pray and ask God to reveal His will. He will make it plain. The saint who advances on his knees never retreats. (Jim Elliot) | |||
Tracy 8/24/2025 6:40:45 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; You encourage them, and You listen to their cry. PSALM 10:17 God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear. So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill. (Thomas Watson) PRAY ABOUT IT: We often think that prayer begins with us. True prayer has its origin in God. He prepares our heart to pray and His ear to hear that His will may be done. To be a part of His work is a wonder. Today, as you pray, think about God creating that hunger to pray in your heart. Then surely He must answer the very prayers He originates. Every Christian will become at last what his desires have made him. We are all the sum total of our hungers. The great saints have all had thirsting hearts. (Miles Stanford) | |||
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