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A Flourishing of Faith, and the Greatest Miracle

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Greatest Miracle

Trust and obey... What a message regarding prayer! We have noticed certain themes throughout our study of praying... trust, obedience, compassion, persistence, and consecration, among them. We learned that these are the tools of prayer. Then, as we exercised them in praying, we witnessed divinity, and received its products which are a flourishing of faith, holiness, righteousness, relationship, power, wisdom, understanding but most of all... a dispensations of grace and mercy; all of which culminate in our salvation, and an eternal existence with God. We have found that as we were taught to use these tools in our prayers we received the Lord’s peace, and the other products of His divine nature.

A Case of the “I Wants”

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Great in Faith

Do we want to be great men and women of faith? Is our goal to be like Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, or Martin Luther King? Is working quietly in the trenches unappealing to us? Did the first sentence of our morning prayers today contain the words "give me", "make me", or "let me?" God has no desire to make you great unless it just so happens that by doing so it will fulfil His will. As a matter of fact, some of the great disappointments in the Bible have been great people (like Nebuchadnezzar and Delilah) but men like David became great despite themselves because God needed them for that purpose or example. Often (also like David) they were great in spite of themselves. So, do we really want to seek greatness for ourselves?

Do our Prayers Change Us?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Changing Prayer

We say that we pray every day, and that might be true, but is our prayer a momentary request, or is it a fervent plea? Do we step into, and out of, our prayer closets unchanged by the experience of having knelt or laid prostrate before God? Are our prayers from the depths of our hearts and being drawn as if by a pump from the deepest wells of our souls? Once again, do we walk from our place of prayer a changed person, or simply pleased that we can mark this item from our list of tasks?

Do we say “God is great!” In full understanding?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , God’s Greatness

We say these words all the time... “God is Great!”... but do we really understand what we are saying, or are we repeating them to relieve ourselves of the obligation required to grasp some mystery He has presented us? Or, maybe we use them as a way of dismissing a conversation someone wants to have regarding an amazing act of God in their life? Let’s explore the meaning of this phrase today, and why we shouldn’t use it lightly.