Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
                
                
                
                    Charles Haddon Spurgeon: ‘That the king should say to the petitioner, “Bring your case before me, and I will grant your desire,” is kindness. But for Him to say, “I will be your secretary. I will write out your petition for you. I will put it into proper words so that your petition shall be framed
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 23, 2009
                
                
                
                    There is a community here in the United States where a Christian Church had such blaring music and so many mission trips and so many children and families that people in the neighborhood issued a petition to make the church quieter. They went to a Jewish neighbor and asked him to sign the petition.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GLOBAL WARMING DOUBTS
More than 31,000 U.S. scientists, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s (in fields such as atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties) have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the U.N.’s assumption that human production
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PRAYER DOESN'T CHANGE GOD, IT CHANGES ME
In a scene from Shadowlands, a film based on the life of C.S. Lewis, Lewis has returned to Oxford from London, where he has just been married to Joy Gresham, an American woman, in a private Episcopal ceremony performed at her hospital bedside. She is dying
                    
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                    A pastor bought a female parrot that became quite a problem.  The only thing the parrot could say was, "Come on baby, let's kiss!  Come on baby, let's kiss!"  She was quite carnal.
The pastor wanted a more spiritually-minded parrot, so he looked around for help.
After much
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 11, 2007
                
                
                
                    "In the epistles, prayer requests are most often linked to the rapid spread of the gospel and the advance of Christ’s Kingdom.  Christians are encouraged to seek God’s wisdom and revelation, perseverance, and power…petition comes across as a dynamic agent of change, something that seizes the
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 20, 2008
                
                
                
                    We think God should just forgive everyone and let everyone go to Heaven.
EXAMPLE
		If I write up a petition saying 
			pardon all criminals
			Tear down the prisons and 
			do away with all of the laws  
			get rid of the police force and courts.
Would you sign it? 
Not one of you is in favor of
                    
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                    Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jan 16, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Heb 5:7  During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
Heb 5:8  Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered
Heb 5:9  and,
                    
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                    There is a story told about a faithful old deacon whose oft repeated prayer expression was, "O Lord, touch the unsaved with Thy finger." 
   One prayer meeting night he was leading in prayer when as he intoned this petition, as he so often did, he abruptly stopped praying. 
   Supposing he had been
                    
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                    On the evening of April 25, 1958, a young Korean exchange student, a leader in student Christian affairs in the University of Pennsylvania, left his flat and went to the corner to post a letter to his parents in Pusan. Turning from the mailbox he stepped into the path of eleven leather-jacketed
                    
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                    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 18, 2008
                
                
                
                    In 1829, a man named George Wilson robbed the U.S. Mail and in the act, committed a murder.
He was later arrested, tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hanged.
Some of his friends petitioned President Andrew Jackson for a pardon.
The pardon was granted.  But Wilson refused to accept it.
This
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 5, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    QUOTE:  Charles Spurgeon, A View of God’s Glory.
“Now, what attribute is God about to show to Moses?  His petition is, “Show me thy glory.”  Will God show him his justice?  His holiness?  His wrath?  His power?  No.  Hear the still small voice – “I will make all my goodness pass before you.”  Ah! 
                    
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                    Larry Lea, who used to serve as a pastor in Rockwall, Texas, has a course on the Lord’s Prayer. When he teaches people how to pray this petition -- “Your kingdom come” -- he asks them to draw an imaginary circle around themselves and not to emerge from that circle until all their priorities are in
                    
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