Prayer - Faith
Pray and Post a Guard
My best friend in high school drove an old, baby blue Audi. We went everywhere in that car. And regardless of where we went, regardless of where he parked it, he always walked away with the keys in the ignition. I remember asking him, are you going to take your keys and lock your doors? And without missing a beat his response was, “What if someone wants to borrow it?” Now I’m sure none of you purposefully leave your keys in your car. In fact most cars honk at you if you walk away with the keys in them. And…
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Pray First
Have you ever had a situation that you’re not quite ready for? Your circumstances are changing quickly and you need to react. What’s your go to instinct? Reminds me of that Twix commercial from the early 2000s. “Need a moment? Chew it over with Twix.” We want to stall! But real life doesn’t hand you a candy bar. You’ve got about three seconds before you have to react. We’re in week two of our look at the prayers in the book of Nehemiah. Last week Nehemiah was aligning his heart with God’s by praying God’s promise back to Him. In…
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Lord, Remember What You Said
My wife and I are doing a chronological Bible in a year plan and I learned something new about prayer in the bible. We just finished the book of Nehemiah and I never knew that Nehemiah has the longest prayer in the entire bible. Nehemiah is filled with prayer . I figured we must have surely covered Nehemiah in a Pray First message, but no. Never took encouragement from Nehemiah. To set the stage, Nehemiah was written after the babylonian exile and some Jews had started returning to Jerusalem, but the city was still in ruins. In Nehemiah chapter 1,…
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