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Richard Foster in his book "Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home", says that intercession is a way of loving others. Intercessory prayer is selfless prayer, even self-giving prayer.
"Intercessory prayer is priestly ministry, and one of the most challenging teachings in the New Testament is the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Main Idea: Jesus died a horrible death so we could live for eternity.
Verse: Jesus “Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness…” (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV).
Illustration: A man was sentenced to a horrible death. He was to be buried up
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Charismatic
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 21, 2003
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A couple of years ago on America’s Funniest Home Videos, a young boy was shown on Christmas morning. He came down to see a large present beside the tree and ran over to tear it open to see what was inside. The paper went flying and suddenly he broke into a dance and jumped around the room
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Methodist
Contributed by Stephen Wright on Mar 14, 2004
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Harry Ironside told this story:
One day as American pioneers travelled in their wagon train they noticed a long line of smoke that stretched for miles across the prairie. Soon it was evident that the dry grass was burning fiercely, and the fire was moving toward them rapidly. They had crossed a
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Baptist
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During college days, a man did a prank and accidentally took the life of a classmate. Although he had confessed his wrong to God and the case has been settled, he continued to be so torn up on the inside that he couldn’t keep a job or maintain a good relationship with his wife.
But one day
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on May 12, 2005
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Temptation and evil are parts of life. We pray in this petition that God will guard us from its disastrous effects and help us stand against it. Unfortunately many of us follow the example of the majority of people and follow the path of least resistance. We yield. In the lake of life, we are Brown
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Lutheran
Contributed by Brent Baker on Sep 13, 2005
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In his book, The One-Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard recommends developing the practice of "one-minute praising," where the manager (or parent, spouse, etc.) tries to "catch someone doing something right" and then spend a full sixty seconds praising that person for the good deed. This is a lot
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Solomon is chpater 1 of Ecc tells us that there is no memory of men who have died and left this place – their memories fade, their work is forgotten and they fade off into the realm of nothingness when they live their life without God.Everyone like this will be forgotten!Playboy’s founder - Hugh
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 30, 2008
Dwight Moody was a great evangelist. However, his grammar was very poor. Moody had planned to speak at Cambridge University in England. Most in this University were outraged that a backwoods American preacher would dare to appear and speak in the center of the culture of the English world. When
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Allan Kircher on Jun 22, 2008
There are seasons when doubts and fears abound, and so suffocate us with their fumes that we cannot even raise a cry. Then the indwelling Spirit represents us, speaks for us, and makes intercession for us, crying in our name, and making intercession for us according to the will of God. The cry
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Baptist
Contributed by Art Good on Nov 6, 2008
Ken Hannah snowboards off cliffs, flies 40 feet straight up on a bicycle, and jumps out of airplanes on a snowboard. Someone once asked him how he learned to do all those incredible things.
He answered, "I'm an extreme person. When I was 6 years old I rode my bike down a flight of stairs. At 7
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Dec 28, 2012
We humans tend to come to blockages and stop. The other day I was using a vacuum cleaner, the nice new yellow one here at the hall, I turned it on and it worked (tuned it on made all the right noises). But it had no suck. It had become blocked and jammed with hay where the hose met its body, thanks
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Salvation Army
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