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A Prayer for Loved Ones Struggling with AddictionBy Ashley Moore “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.” – James 5:16, NLT After almost nine years of sobriety, someone I love relapsed
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A Prayer for PatienceBy Rev. Kyle Norman “You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” – James 5:8 I used to have the proverbial lead foot. Every journey was taken to be a race. I would zip around in my car, weaving in and out of traffic.
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A Prayer for Hungering for the Things of GodBy Emily Rose Massey “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:6, NIV). Years ago, I was involved with a ministry where we would fast and pray for certain periods of time together. One time, we all spent a
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A Prayer to Share Why We PrayBy Chelsey DeMatteis “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” – Romans 12:12 This title seems odd, right? Why would people want to know the reasons someone prays? Well, I believe when someone knows why we pray and who or what we’re praying for, they get
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A Prayer for When You Don’t Feel Good EnoughBy Molly Law “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. –Psalm 139:13-14 This is something that affects me acutely, and I
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A Prayer of Praise for Who God IsBy Heidi Vegh “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD”. – Psalm 160:6 As readers of the Bible, we often get caught in the mindset of reading the Bible to find ourselves. It is true that the Bible is full of the ways that God loves us,
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A Prayer to See Christ as ProtectorBy Chelsey DeMatteis “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You
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A Prayer to Be Anchored in HopeBy Jessica Van Roekel “We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor for the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” –
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Finding Hope in Wilderness Seasons When I was a little girl, I lived in rural Mississippi, down a long dirt road that was named after my family, that offered no cable television, few visitors, and long hours playing in the yard. My sister and I also learned to love to play in the wooded area directly
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A Prayer for GratefulnessBy Meg Bucher “The LORD is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.” Psalm 28:7 NLT Positive thinking is important, but without proper roots, we may force our view of what
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