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                    I was a preacher in Apache, Oklahoma –about 2500 people in this small Southwestern Oklahoma town. Once a year, around this time of the year, the whole town would shut down for a weekend and have a Rattlesnake Festival. The main elder in our church – Ronnie, was PRESIDENT of this Rattlesnake
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Sickler on Mar 6, 2012
                
                
                
                    TWO WOMEN PRAYING
There were two widow women, each with only a single son.  The two young men both got involved in drugs and they both ended up in prison.  The women were devout Christians and both had been in constant prayer for many years. When their two boys were sent to prison the one woman
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Stokes on Dec 9, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The movie Shadowlands is about C.S. Lewis’ relationship with his wife Joy.  In the movie, Lewis’ colleague’s praise him and affirm that C.S. Lewis’ faithful prayers were getting God to help his wife.    In response C.S. Lewis says that when he prays because he can’t help himself not to get any gain
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr W E Sangster wrote: "If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy", and hear the words of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones: "There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christians so much as our prayer life."
There is a hymn that tells us: "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that
                    
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                    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 27, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Do we not ask because we are too busy doing good? Billy Kim is the newly elected Baptist World Alliance President and the pastor of a 13,000 member church, the Suwon Church in South Korea. In his comments after his election, he
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Thomas Watson: “The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel!”
J. Sidlow Baxter:  "...Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguements,
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "A minister was interrupted one morning by his little son, who entered his study, sat down at his father’s feet and fixed his big, wondering eyes upon his father’s face.  The father turned to him and asked impatiently:  "Well!  What is it?  What do you want?"  The big, round eyes grew wider still
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Gladwell on Jul 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    He tells how a fly was looking up at a praying mantis, “What are you doing” said the fly. “I’m praying,” said the mantis. “Don’t be stupid, insects don’t pray.” The fly told it. And at that, the Mantis swooped down and grabbed the fly
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On Hampton Plantation in coastal South Carolina there used to live an elderly sharecropper, illiterate but very wise. One of his favorite sayings was this: If you ain’t in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When my wife and I were at Dallas Seminary back in the early 1960s, we lived in a little apartment that was part of a small group of apartments that have since then been destroyed, I am happy to say. Hot and cold running rats--all the joys of home were there. In the summer the weather came inside,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A PRESIDENT PRAYS
Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water--and at times, of course, more so. By prayer I mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that our prayers are imperfect. Of course
                    
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