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    Practice - prayer - Prayers - relationship to God - Relationship with God

    The One Person I Forget to Pray For

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    It seems strange to admit that I rarely pray for myself. As a list-maker, I found that creating prayer lists and assigning them to certain days really helps me get focused. Every day of the week is dedicated to a different group of people. Mondays I reserve for my husband, Tuesdays for my children and so on. But recently the Lord convicted me of prayerlessness. I was a bit astonished. After all, I pray for my country, my family, my church, etc. with regularity. I can’t go to bed at night without making sure I hit everyone on that day’s…

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    clutter - declutter - freedom - images - Imaginative Prayer - mind - prayer - Self Awareness - soul - strongholds

    Declutter Your Soul with Imaginative Prayer

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    To declutter one’s mind means understanding what that clutter is. Lies that I believe concerning my reality are one sort of mess. Disturbing images in my mind also clutter my soul on a regular basis.  However, I live in so much more freedom because I learned how to take thoughts captive through imaginative prayer.  I have learned to declutter my soul with Jesus. I first read about this particular prayer exercise in Beth Moore’s book, Breaking Free.  I had recently fasted for three days because my relationship with my boyfriend was going nowhere.  I was a single mom with four…

  • Imaginative Prayer - parable - Pearl - Pearl of Great Price - prayer - relationship to God - self worth

    You are the Pearl of Great Price

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    A second marriage brings with it a number of regrets. If onlys tend to crop up. If only, we think, we knew then what we know now.  If only we weren’t dragging along an ex-husband or ex-wife and the damages from that marriage into the new one.  I was thinking along those dispirited lines one morning several months into my marriage to my wonderful husband as I read the parable in Matthew about the pearl of great price.  Sometimes too many sermons on a subject will close our minds to the possibilities in the Word, and so I reread the familiar…