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Seven Ideas to Strengthen Your Prayer Life

  1.  Include prayer for all people.  If we make it a point to regularly pray for everyone that God has called us to pray for, this exercise will help us to build the habit of prayer.  Moreover, if we … Continue reading

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Six Reasons Why Prayerlessness is Sin

An excerpt from Prayer A to Z.   People come up with all kinds of excuses why they don’t pray more.  I think the most common excuse is, “I am so busy, I just don’t have enough time to pray.”  Well, the … Continue reading

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Increasing Solar Storms: A Sign of Christ’s Coming

  When the end is near as we know it, when Jesus is about to return to this earth in the clouds, the Bible says that “the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”  Let me give you the full … Continue reading

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Hebrew Words for Praise — Barak

Praise as adoration (from barak).  According to Erpestad in his Ten Studies in Prayer, “Adoration overlaps with praise in its meaning, yet it goes even further in its contemplation of the glory of God.  In adoration, the worshipper permits his … Continue reading

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Hebrew Words for Praise — Halal

Praise as jubilation (from halal).  This Hebrew word halal, found more than 160 times in the Old Testament, is in most cases translated as praise, and gives us the idea of celebration, singing, shouting, boasting, and jubilation.  Whereas praise as … Continue reading

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Hebrew Words for Praise – Yadah

In general terms, praise may be defined as approval or admiration toward someone.  Praise to God is the acknowledgement of who He is.  It is exalting Him and thanking Him for His attributes and His ways.  It is expressing to … Continue reading

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What do we set before us?

 That is one of the most important questions a Christian should ask himself.  For the thing we set before us will be as our guide and even as our god.  If we set anything other than the true God before … Continue reading

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Where Does Faith Come From?

 I’ve been thinking about faith.  Where does it come from?  And Abraham believed God.  How did his belief start?  Did he just conjure it up from his mind?  How does a person get faith?  Does it come to me if … Continue reading

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5 Wonderful Things that Resulted from Jesus’ Death on the Cross

  1.  Protection from God’s wrath.  Christ’s death worked to appease the wrath of God against all sinners that He died for—all those who believe in Him. Jesus has said, “He who does not believe the Son shall not see life, … Continue reading

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Why Don’t All Christians Have Good Fruit?

What we are really asking here in terms of fruit is why all Christians don’t show evidence in their life of the nature of Christ in them.  The answer to that question is really quite elementary.  It is because there … Continue reading

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