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Psalm 8 PRAYER POINTSTheology From A Night Sky - CJ Mahaney These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer. OLord, our Lord, how majestic is yourname in all the earth! You have set yourglory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have establishedstrength because of your foes, to stil...

"Having wended our way in five consecutive psalms (Pss. 3-7) through the dark valleys of lament and pleas for deliverance, we hear the strains of a joyful melody rising from just beyond the steep hill represented by Psalm 7, and we arrive at the crest to discover a welcome prospect of breathtaking beauty and awesome delight. Psalm 8 introduces us to the first experience of...

Corinthians 12:1-11 PRAYER POINTSEnabled and Empowered - Bob KauflinThese written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer. Nowconcerningspiritual gifts,brothers,I do not want you to be uninformed...no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit. Nowthere are varieties of gifts, butthe same Spirit;andthere...

To be able to confess that the Jesus of the incarnation, cross, and resurrection is truly the Lord, especially in the face of a society that has lords aplenty, already attests the powerful, transforming work of the Holy Spirit. (D.A. Carson) ""But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bea...

Psalm 29 PRAYER POINTSTheology From A Thunderstorm by CJ MahaneyThese written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer. Ascribe to theLord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to theLordglory and strength. Ascribe to theLordthe glory due his name; worship theLordinthe splendor of holiness. The voice of theLordis overthe wate...

"I recall one day when I was in college, Clyde Kilby, my favorite English teacher, said something to this effect: 'One of the greatest tragedies of the fall is that we get tired of familiar glories.' That simple statement sank deep into my consciousness. It made me very sad, because I saw how superficial and unresponsive I was to so many wonders around me. It filled me wit...

Psalm 62 PRAYER POINTSDeepened Convictions in the Storm - Chad Hester These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer. For God alonemy soulwaits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, myfortress;I shall not be greatly shaken. Once God has spoken; twice have I heard t...

"You think you need something new and better. But much of wisdom is about remembering what we know, rather than discovering fresh insight." Ed Welch "Evil, being ruthlessly competitive, is attracted to weakness, to give a last push to whatever is leaning or tottering." Derek Kidner "Meanwhile his experience is something to share. What he has found in one crisis will avai...

Psalm 36 PRAYER POINTSA Stunning Contrast - Brian Chesemore These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer. Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. Your steadfast love, OLord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness i...

"This is a psalm of powerful contrasts, a glimpse of human wickedness at its most malevolent, and divine goodness in its many-sided fullness. Meanwhile the singer is menaced by the one and assured of victory by other. Few psalms cover so great a range in so short a space." Derek Kidner "He that wishes to attain right views about Christian holiness must begin by examining ...