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“It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer. Prayer comes from God’s initiatives, not ours… God wants us more than we want God!” — Henri J. M. Nouwen, “The Only Necessary Thing”, p. 30 (originally from “Prayer and the Jealous God”) There is a number raindogscine.com buy viagra from india of …
“To pray unceasingly, as St. Paul asks us to do, would be completely impossible if it meant to think constantly about or speak continuously to God. To pray unceasingly does not mean to think about God in contrast to thinking about other things, or to talk to God instead of talking to other people. Rather, …
“Intimate communion with God is not an easy discipline. Remember, Jesus spent the night in prayer. Night is a time of mystery, darkness, solitude, and sometimes loneliness… Prayer doesn’t always offer an insight that suddenly comes to your mind. Communion with God is more often an intuition or inner conviction that God’s heart is greater …
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“If we do not know we are the beloved sons and daughters of God, we’re going to expect someone [else]… to make us feel special and worthy… Many relationships begin out of a fear of being alone, but they can’t ultimately satisfy a need that only solitude with God can fulfill.” — Henri Nouwen (with …
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These are the 25 books that I would most recommend for growing in spiritual maturity. I tried to rank them in terms of priority for reading. It is genuinely hard to compare two excellent books that have different topics, so the positions could easily be moved around some. 1) The Bible. Regular reading of the …
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Introduction The good news about becoming a friend of God is that God already desires to be your friend!1 So you do not have to fear rejection, because He is already prepared to accept you whenever you decide that you want to be His friend. The second piece of good news is that you do …
Key Point 1: Be reconciled to God. The Bible teaches that there is only one way to be truly reconciled to God. Reconciliation comes through believing in Jesus, God’s one and only Son, who died on a cross to pay the penalty for our sins. The kind of belief referred to in the Bible is …
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