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This devotional on prayer accompanies Eastbrook Church’s 30 Days of Prayer in June 2018.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites.” (Matthew 6:5) When we come to the topic of prayer, there is nothing worse than starting in the wrong place. In Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, He graciously highlights two errors that we easily slip into with prayer. We will look at …
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One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” (Luke 11:1) In order to become a person of prayer, we must want to learn. Like Jesus’ disciples in Luke 11, we must not only …
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“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Luke 11:9-10) If the first part of …
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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." (Romans 8:15) One pervasive problem of prayer is how our prayers relate to the sovereignty of God. If God is all-knowing and rules over …
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“He will call on me, and I will answer him.” (Psalm 91:15) When we pray, it sometimes feels like we are talking to ourselves or to the wind currents in the air. We may wonder: does God really hear us, and if so, does He respond? Where Psalm 80 reaches out to God with an …
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Matthew Erickson 