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Prayer Closet
This page is dedicated to
help you pray. There is nothing more important in your life than
prayer. You may identify with what C. S. Lewis writes in his
Letters to Malcolm:
The
truth is, I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my
spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at
all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it
merely goes out.
... Prayer is
irksome. An excuse to omit it is never unwelcome. When it is over,
this casts a feeling of relief and holiday over the rest of the day. We
are reluctant to begin. We are delighted to finish. While we are at
prayer, but not while we are reading a novel or solving a cross-word
puzzle, any trifle is enough to distract us....
The odd thing is
that this reluctance to pray is not confined to periods of dryness. When
yesterday's prayers were full of comfort and exaltation, today's will
still be felt as, in some degree, a burden.
... What can be
done for--or what should be done with--a rose-tree that dislikes producing
roses? Surely it ought to want to! ...
The painful
effort which prayer involves is no proof that we are doing something we
were not created to do.
... I must say my
prayers to-day whether I feel devout or not; but that is only as I must
learn my grammar if I am ever to read the poets.
... I have a
notion that what seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our
best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling and
contend with the greatest disinclination. For these, perhaps, being nearly
all will, come from a deeper level than feeling.
... If we were
perfected, prayer would not be a duty, it would be delight. Some day,
please God, it will be.
... I am
therefore not really deeply worried by the fact prayer is at present a
duty, and even an irksome one.
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here for Extension of Model Prayer
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here for prayer: Help Me Worship You.
Click
here for THE VICTOR'S PRAYER
How Paul
Prayed
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by A. Gene Veal
"Now," said
Paul, "I am convinced this good work that He began, He will continue
until the day of Jesus Christ." God is not experimenting.
God did not
start something with you to "see" if it would work. God does not
build a road that leads no where. There is none of His works that are half
finished because He Who has begun it will complete it. HE WILL, not you.
Do you see where Paul is
coming to now? Remember this is the foundation that gets him praying
correctly. This is the pathway of his meditation so he knows how to pray
rightly. Read this article and learn Paul's method of prayer.
Click
here to read HOW PAUL PRAYED.
Click here to read SPURGEON PRAYERS.
Click here to read how GEORGE MUELLER
prayed.
Click
here to read about our teaching cassettes on PRAYER.
Your Mind
by A. Gene Veal
The mind
is the Christian battleground. Jesus said that as a man
"thinks," so is he. The Scriptures warn us to think on
certain things and to "set our minds" on things above. We
are told the way to not be conformed to this world is by the
"renewing of our minds." We are told to "let this
mind be in you" that was in Christ. Paul said he had "the
mind of Christ." We are warned that if we "mind the things
of the flesh" we will reap destruction, but if we "mind the
things of the Spirit" we will reap life and peace.
Learn the
practical application of putting on the "right mind" in very
adverse circumstances of relationship with our fellow believers.
Read this transcript of one of our teaching cassettes from the album:
Dealing with Your Mind.
Read
this transcript by clicking here.
Go
to the album on Dealing with Your Mind by clicking here.
Click
here to read about SingleVISION Living
Forgive -
HOW?
by A. Gene Veal
Enter into a Scriptural
life of forgiveness. Let forgiveness release the power to love
others as they are. The key to a healthy, joy-filled future is found
in forgiveness now. You have a choice. Learn how to
forgive. Perhaps this article will help you.
Click
Here to Read About Forgiveness
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Here to see Our Teaching Cassettes on Forgiveness.
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