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Category: Day Prayer
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Parable Of The Wedding Banquet
Extract: When the invited guests refused to come to the Kings son’s wedding, the King instructed other slaves to appeal to them once again saying, “Tell those who have been invited, ‘Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to…
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Jesus’ Multiple Healings At Gennesaret
Extract: Following Jesus’ miraculous walking on water on the Sea of Galilee, he arrived at Gennesaret. The people there recognised him and the news quickly spread to the surrounding area. They brought “all their sick to him. They begged him if they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it…
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Jesus’ Teaching On The Holy Spirit
Extract: Before Jesus ascended to Heaven, He said to his disciples, “If you love me, you will obey my commandments. Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth”. (John 14: 15-17) Thought The disciples were assured, if they accepted and…
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Jesus Appears To His Apostles
Extract: When Jesus appeared to the Apostles while they were eating, “He rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected”. (Mark 16: 9-15) Thoughts It was a harsh disapproval from Jesus. The ten apostles present in the room had seemingly rejected the evidence of…
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The Death of John The Baptist (2)
Extract: Herod had John the Baptist arrested because John had repeatedly said, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife. So Herodias, Herod’s wife, nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him”. (Mark 6:17-19) Thought Herodias’ grudge went so deep that she used her innocent young daughter to have John the…
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Jesus Heals A Leper
Extract When a man, “covered in leprosy” saw Jesus, “he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, ‘Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean’.” Jesus stretched out his arm, touched him and said, “I am willing. Be clean”. Immediately the man was healed. (Luke 5: 12-16) Thoughts The man…
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Jesus Walks On Water
Extract: The disciples struggled for hours to sail their boat against a severe wind on the Sea of Galilee. When they saw Jesus nearby, walking on the water’s surface, they were “terrified”; thinking He was a “ghost”. Jesus approached them saying: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid”. He then boarded the boat…
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Holy Family Return From Egypt
Extract After Herod died, an Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.” Joseph did as he was told, avoiding Judea where Herod’s brother was now in power, and settled…
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Birth Of Jesus Is Announced To Joseph (2)
Extract When Joseph heard that Mary, whom he intended to marry, was already pregnant, he planned to divorce her. However, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from…
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Jesus And John The Baptist (3)
Extract Jesus, referring to John the Baptist, asked a gathered crowd, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see… A man dressed in fancy clothes… A prophet? Yes, I tell you…, This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your…