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Prayer for the New Year
On behalf of the entire National Day of Prayer (NDP) Task Force, let me wish you a happy New Year! It is hard to believe that it is already 2012. Isn’t it amazing that another year is in the history books and you contributed to the greatest story of all? [...]
Prayer for Something New by Shirley Dobson
On October 27, 1949, a Wheaton College student named Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: I have just now prayed for God’s New Revelation – this generation’s real laying hold of the Old Revelation. The old is become so undefined, so “accepted”, so followed in blindness, that when the truth of it is brought to light, [...]
In the Depths of the Valley by Shirley Dobson
Read this Puritan model of repentant, yielding prayer: Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up that to be [...]
Answered Prayer and Deliberate Sin by Shirley Dobson
Does God answer the prayers of a Christian who deliberately sins? When asked that question, theologian R.C. Sproul responded this way: When we refer to Christians who deliberately sin, we’re talking about every Christian who ever lived, and we’re talking about something that Christians do every day of their lives. We can talk about sins that [...]
Empty of Self, Full of God
In John 15:5, Jesus said, “Apart from me you can do nothing.” When he was a young man, John Wesley wrote to his mother: My desire is to know and feel that I am nothing, that I have nothing, and that I can do nothing. For whenever I am empty of myself, then know I of [...]
Conquered by God
In The Divine Conquest: God’s Pursuit of Man, A.W. Tozer writes: We might well pray for God to invade and conquer us, for until He does, we remain in peril from a thousand foes…The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of [...]
Praying for Our Enemies by Shirley Dobson
Hear the words of Jesus to all who would follow Him: “I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). For the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the enemy was obvious – he was imprisoned and finally murdered by the Nazis. Facing this persecution, he had these comments on [...]
Prayer and Godliness by Shirley Dobson
In The Practice of Godliness, Jerry Bridges defines godliness as both “God-centeredness, or devotion to God; and Godlikeness, or Christian character.” Both aspects will flourish through our prayers. As we concentrate on growing in our reverence and awe for God and in our understanding of His love for us, we will find that our desire for [...]
Opening His Book by Shirley Dobson
In his Confessions, Augustine addressed the entire text to God – making it, in essence, a book-length prayer. Here, Augustine prays for his partaking of God’s Word: Yours is the day, yours the night. No moment of time passes except by your will. Grant me some part of it for my meditations on the secrets of [...]
Faith in God by Shirley Dobson
When Jesus cursed a fig tree and it withered, He used the occasion to teach His disciples first about faith, and then about prayer. “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes [...]

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