Category: Day Prayer
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Private Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer (3)
Extract Jesus taught His disciples The Lord’s Prayer saying, “When you pray… pray like this”: Our Father, who art in Heaven… (Matthew 6:7-15) As well as being a beautiful prayer, it structure shows us multiple techniques for embracing God: Thought Pour your heart out to God. Reflection Almighty God, you are my Master. I give you…
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Private Prayer (1)
Extract Jesus said, when you pray, “do not be like the hypocrites because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have had their reward”. Instead, He said, “go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father…
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Love For Enemies (1)
Extract Jesus said, “Love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous”. (Matthew 5:44-45) Thought Despise the sin, not the person. Remember,…
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Parable Of The Growing Seed (1)
Extract Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how”. (Mark 4:26-27) Thought It’s unavoidable, every day we walk this earth, we sow seeds! Others, watch them…
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Jesus And Beelzebub (1)
Extract Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin”. (Mark 3:28-29) Thought Before his last breath, Jesus forgave the “Good Thief” and asked his Father…
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Jesus “Lost” In The Temple (1)
Extract When Mary and Joseph found Jesus in the temple courts “astonishing” the listeners, they asked, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you anxiously.” Jesus replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2:48-49)…
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The Lord’s Supper
Extract At the Last Supper, “While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take it. This is my body.” And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them,…
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The Withered Fig Tree
Extract When the disciples noticed that a fig tree Jesus cursed the previous day had withered, they commented on how quickly it had died. Jesus replied, “Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, if someone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his…
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The Request Of James And John (2)
Extract The brothers, James and John, asked Jesus if they could sit one at his right and one at his left in heaven. Jesus replied, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?” (Mark 10-38) Thought Following Jesus’ crucifixion…
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Jesus Predicts Peters Kind of Death
Extract Following Simon Peter’s denial of Jesus and his reconciliation, Jesus said to him, “I tell you the solemn truth, when you were young, you tied your clothes around you and went wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will tie you up and bring you…