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prayer: seeking the divine
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Do we need to pray?What is prayer for?
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13 Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray.
Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.
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14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and
anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
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15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the
Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
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16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each
other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person
is powerful and effective.
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17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed
earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for
three and a half years.
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18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth
produced its crops. - James 5:13-18
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The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. - James 5:16b
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the primary purpose of prayer: knowing and seeking God
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Prayer is the personal, communicative response to
the knowledge of God.
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The power of our prayers, then, lies not primarily in our effort and striving, or in any technique, but rather in our knowledge of God.
- Tim Keller
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the primary purpose of prayer: knowing and seeking God
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submissive trustprayerful confidence and hope
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We should be encouraged to pray by a sure hope that our
prayers will be answered. - John Calvin
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You do not have because you do not ask God.
- James 4:2b
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When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
- James 4:3
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the primary purpose of prayer: knowing and seeking God
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