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Verse of the Week


Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you? Don't these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God. Galatians 3:5-6

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The Practice of Prayer

For years I have wondered if King Hezekiah would have prayed for God to spare his life if he knew that in that extra 15 years he was given, he would father one of the most evil kings in the nation's history.  Sometimes we pray so selfishly.  We are so short sighted, caring only about ourselves and the time we live in.  This week, I want to practice praying with the end in mind.

I pray that God would cancel any of my requests where he has something better in mind, something eternal.  I read Psalm 106:14-15  that said, "In the wilderness, their desires ran wild, testing God's patience in that dry land.  so he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it."

I guess the lesson there is to be careful what you ask for...

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