O LORD, my God, would You please rise up in Your power and come to deliver me from the evil within and around me, that when I am oppressed by temptations, I will be defended by Your power, so the hosts of the enemy may never prevail against me. Hear me in Your mercy, Father […]
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“Spouting off before listening to the facts is…shameful and foolish.” Proverbs 18:13 NLT Someone said “getting married is like buying something you have admired for ages in a shop window. You love it—but when you get it home, it doesn’t always go with everything!” The Bible gives us three words that are essential to building
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Father, just as You sent John the Baptist to prepare the way for Jesus’ coming, help me to clear a path in my heart, too. Show me the distractions in my life that block me from all-out worship of You this Advent. Lord, I await Your coming! As I celebrate the first Advent––the first coming––I
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Dear Heavenly Father, Help me to hear your voice today. Touch me again. Give me the courage to be your beloved. Give me courage to choose joy. Remind me daily that no one can steal my joy without my permission. I need You now this Christmas. Be born in me again in every day I
My Heavenly Father, You sent Your messengers to tell of the birth of Your Son, so I can believe in Him today. Open my ears to hear Your call across the millenia, to repent of my sins, and to seek my heavenly inheritance, both here and for eternity. Help me profess Jesus the Christ until
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O God, by Your holy prophets you promised that Your only Son would come in the flesh for us and be born of a virgin. In these last days, You have fulfilled your Word. When He who came to redeem the world comes to be our judge, let me not be put to shame; through
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Dear LORD, help me filter out all the extraneous noises of Christmas and focus my ears and mind and heart of the Glad Tidings of the birth of Jesus. I desire in my best and deepest heart to be Your man at Christmas and all year. Place me in front of someone today who needs
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Dear LORD Jesus, please warm my heart this season with the same jaw-dropping awe the shepherds felt when they first heard of You. Fan the flame of enthusiasm they had in my life. Make me as eager to share Your love…Your coming here as a baby. Please don’t ever let it become ordinary or ho
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Dear God and Father, my LORD, with the hard things around and about us, I pray for the clear headedness You have promised us. I long for Your Comfort and the assurance of Your presence in whatever may come my way. Help me as the celebration season of Jesus coming to earth approaches to be
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The most common of all life experiences except birth is death. George Bernard Shaw once remarked that one out of one of us dies. Sometimes you can see it creeping up on you from a long way off and at other times it thrusts its head into your life without warning. Which ever way it
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