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Ask & You Shall Receive #9:
Unpacking the Lord’s Prayer

By | 4 Nov 2013
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Committed Christ-followers and pew-warming pietists alike have been reciting the Lord’s Prayer for literally over 2,000 years. Anyone who has hung around any church or organization calling itself “Christian” for even a few minutes has at least heard it and many have it memorized. Tragically, over those 2 millennia, the Lord’s Prayer has become, for many church-goers, a… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #8:
Talking to Mountains?

By | 31 Oct 2013
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When I taught on prayer awhile back and proclaimed there are models taught in the Bible on how to pray, one of those present challenged me, demanding, “You mean to say we have to pray a certain way or we won’t get our prayers answered!?” To which I replied, “No, because that would be a legalistic recipe of… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #7:
Praying in Faith – Part 3

By | 10 Oct 2013
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The Four Ps Almost 40 years ago, right after I first got saved, I read a book entitled The Purpose of Temptation by Bob Mumford, one of the leaders of the Charismatic Movement during the 1970s. In that book, he described a process found throughout Scripture that he termed “The Four Ps,” an acrostic that describes God’s dealings… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #6:
Praying in Faith – Part 2

By | 21 Sep 2013
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Faith, Not Sight For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 …being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. Hebrews 11:1b AMP This refines our concept of faith even further. Faith believes God’s Word despite what… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #5:
Praying in Faith – Part 1

By | 16 Sep 2013
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Faith Defined Just about every Christian theologian can agree the following verse in the Book of Hebrews defines the concept of “faith:” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 As with almost all of my Scripture quotes, this one is from the New King James Version. Unfortunately, this… Read More »

Ask & Your Shall Receive #3:
Why Do We Pray?

By | 2 Sep 2013
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Now that we’ve defined what prayer is and is not, let’s address the “why.” Why do we pray? The Divine Imperative First — and most importantly — we are commanded to pray. Among other verses along those lines, we read the following verses in two of Paul’s epistles: , being vigilant in it with thanksgiving… Colossians 4:2 Rejoice always,

Ask & You Shall Receive #2:
Prayer Defined

By | 1 Sep 2013
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Boiled down to it’s most basic concept, prayer is simply a conversation between a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and the One True God. Access to Father God is only through Jesus’ blood and His finished work of the Cross. How do we know this? Because Jesus Himself said: Jesus said to him, “I am the way,… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #1:
Introduction to Prayer

By | 1 Sep 2013
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For quite awhile now, God has been leading me to teach on prayer here at Miscellaneous Ramblings, so I’m now going to do precisely that. In this series, I hope to impart to you the principles and precepts found in the Scriptures I’ve learned and experienced so you, too, can apply them to what hopefully will become —… Read More »