Pain and hardship will certainly cause us to pray; sometimes even more than our needs and wants. But why do we continue finding ourselves in hard places, difficult places, even addicted places? We experience pain and hardship because we live in a broken world, and in an unseen war where there is an “evil one” against us. What do we do? The fourth way Jesus told us to pray is found in Matthew 6:13, and that is to “lead not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Many people are fascinated by the concept of the afterlife, specifically heaven, and it's hard to understand the realities of heaven. The first reality...
We are in a battle daily, so we must daily prepare for battle. Prayer is where and how we daily prepare to stand firm....
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