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What is the Point of Prayer?

Jun 28
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"When we turn to God in prayer as if God is a gumball machine and our prayers are quarters, or as if God is Santa Claus, ready to leave gifts for good children who leave a note and cookies, or as if God is a genie who must grant our wishes, then we are not using prayer as Jesus did to sustain our relationship with God and seek God’s will."


1 Chronicles 4: 9-10; Proverbs 30:7-9; James 5:13-16





 
 
 

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