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When I Almost Lost My Faith—And Then God Spoke
I was in real danger of losing my faith in the Lord. Then He spoke through both visions and logic--and saved me.
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Imaging Prayer and How to Do It
If you’ve read the Bible lately, there’s all sorts of wonderfully weird things in it. Leviathans on hooks, and the Nephilim of the Old Testament, and the coming of the Holy Spirit on all us believers in the New. And then there’s Revelation… The thing is, it’s all true. I mention it because the “dreams and visions” of the Bible are not weird. They are one way He speaks to us. Look at Daniel, Isaiah, and Revelation if you don’t believe me. But you don’t need to have the spiritual gift of prophecy to see God the way Isaiah saw Him that time: not in the big things, not in…
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Breath Prayer on Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday, a perfect day to revisit Christian breath prayer. The prayer is simple: choose a verse from the Bible. Silently repeat it in two phrases while breathing deeply. Breathe in, the first phrase. Breathe out, the second. The classic breath prayer dates from the ancient church. Today we call it the Jesus Prayer: “Jesus Son of God / have mercy on me, a sinner.” You can turn anything God shows you into a breath prayer. This is NOT an affirmation or a deep breathing exercise. This is praying God’s Word back to Him. This morning, I was re-reading a passage He showed me the other day. At the time…