Tag: Prayer
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Prayer for Freedom
Lord,It is more important to have wisdom than to have money;It is more important to be free than to gratify my lusts;It is more important to see Truth Than to taste pleasure;It is more important to love you than to love life. May you in your mercy free me from my various slaveries. Amen.
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Contemplative Prayer
To gaze on His faceas one does a cool sunsetis to pray aright. Copyright Dennis Cortes 2021
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Asking for Wisdom
James 1:5-8 NLT “If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of […]
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Prayer
I lift up my voice:Heaven’s ear draws near to me,Then blessings come down. Copyright Dennis Cortes 2021
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Prayer in Weakness
I feel weak today, O Lord;I feel drained of energy. Am I dying?Of course! We all are. Help me not to worry, Lord,Though I’ve sinned so much. Your mercy is greater than my misery.But still, why do I feel so weak? Not sleepy but weak:As if the strength has been drained from my limbs. My […]
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Unjudged
“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself… It is the Lord who judges me.” (1 Corinthians 4:3, 4b) Lord, deliver me from the curse of always needing or having to prove myself to […]
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The Visit
The plague has visited my tentAnd left the marks of its short stay:My lungs are not what they once were;I breathe no longer easily. No child of God remains unscathedBy trials common to mankind.We all must kneel to Him and prayFor mercy everyday. Copyright: Dennis M. Cortes 2021 Photo by Mulyadi on Unsplash
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The Peace of God
Phil. 4:6,7 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Because of the present pandemic, we need peace more than ever. The troubles we […]
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Lead Us Not Into Temptation
TEXT: Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. INTRODUCTION Sin is the Christian’s greatest grief. Christians can still sin and this happens when we succumb to temptation. Temptation isn’t sin, but giving in to temptation is. We need to be prepared for temptation when it strikes. We should prepare […]
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Reversed Thunder
“And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the […]