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    Prayer for All Needs (Excerpted)

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    Clement of Rome
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    Scripture
    Genesis 1:, Isaiah 45:7, 1 Samuel 2:6-7, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Psalm 146:7-9, Isaiah 61:1, John 3:16, Colossians 1:13, Revelation 4:11, Ephesians 5:8, Acts 26:18, 2 Timothy 1:9, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Luke 1:51-52, Luke 4:18-19
    *This is the earliest known prayer of the Christian Church outside of scripture May he who created everything keep the number of his chosen people, throughout the world, up to the strength he...

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    A Double Blessing

    Author
    Mark Batterson
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 61:1, Psalm 96:1-3, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:17, Psalm 40:3, 1 Peter 4:10-11, Psalm 67:1-2, 2 Corinthians 9:10-11
    During his celebrated career as a composer, George Frideric Handel wrote forty-two operas, twenty-nine oratorios, and 120 cantatas. Of Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven said, “To him I bow the knee.” Hande...

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    Pushed to the Brink of Destruction

    Author
    James A. Knight
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    Scripture
    Hebrews 12:12-13, Psalm 147:3, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 61:1, 1 Peter 5:10
    Psychiatrist James Knight describes in graphic detail the experience that members of Alcoholics Anonymous experience: These persons have had their lives laid bare and pushed to the brink of destructi...

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    The Worst Good News

    Author
    Hugh Halter
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    Scripture
    1 Peter 1:3, Matthew 11:28-30, Romans 10:15, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 2:10-11
    What’s the worst good news you’ve ever received? Here are a few that come to mind for me. “Mr. Halter, this is Bill from the Ford service department. I’ve got some good news for you. All the smoke yo...

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    Joy’s Relationship to the Good Life

    Author
    Miroslav Volf
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    Scripture
    1 Peter 1:8-9, Isaiah 61:10, Matthew 25:21, Galatians 5:22, John 15:11
    Could joy, then, be a candidate for a one-word definition of the good life, perhaps in the same way some people think happiness is? Indeed, could it be better able to integrate in itself the requisite...

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    Elie Wiesel
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    Scripture
    2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Isaiah 61:1, Psalm 143:3, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Romans 5:3-5
    My tradition teaches that no heart is as whole as a broken heart, and I would say that no faith is as solid as a wounded faith.

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    N. T. Wright
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    Scripture
    1 Peter 3:11, Philippians 4:8, Romans 12:18, Micah 6:8, Psalm 34:18, James 1:27, Isaiah 61:1-2
    When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the ...

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    Keas Keasler
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 61:1, Romans 12:12, Matthew 25:35-36, Galatians 6:9, James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Romans 8:18
    The great hope of Christianity is not that we get to escape all the suffering of the world, but that God is going to use us to be a part of his healing project…

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    Christopher Marlowe
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    Scripture
    Titus 2:7, Isaiah 61:3, 1 Peter 3:4, Romans 12:21, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Exodus 33:19
    Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Scripture
    Romans 10:15, Isaiah 61:3, Proverbs 31:30, 1 Peter 3:4, Zephaniah 6:3
    Glory be to God for dappled things.

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    Author
    Laura Sobiech
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    Scripture
    Romans 8:18, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 30:5, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 5:3-5
    “[Zach] had gone from seeing beauty in the midst of suffering to creating it. He had taken this thing that could have suffocated him with despair and stripped it down until all that was left was hope....

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    Matthew 6:28-29, 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 31:30, Genesis 1:31, Isaiah 61:3, Song of Solomon 4:7
    Beauty is that which, when seen, pleases.
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