_Prayers Heard by the Father

Dear soul, I think it is a common experience for believers to go through life thinking that their prayers are seldom heard by God. Whether our prayers are made in the deepest devotion of our souls or whether it is made through the mere surfaces of our hearts, there's often that feeling in our hearts that wonders if our prayers really are heard. But you know how that works, don't you. Life does not operate by what we feel or see. Christ does not work by the compass of our hearts. Instead, He directs the rudder of our lives wherever He wishes and blows ...

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_Cracked Pots Heralding So Great a Message

Dear heavenly, gracious Father, How great and awesome is Your Name. How impossible a task it is to ever sufficiently recount the majesty of your grace, the vastness of your glory. Yet you have given such a task to your creation, to testify of Your greatness and the beauty of Your holiness. I thank You dear Lord that You have included such creatures like me in this privilege of witnessing to Your glory. You sought not to let the sparrows of the air herald Your gospel, but You would be just in doing so, nay, they deserve the privilege better than ...

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_Counted Worthy to Read the Word

What a tremendous blessing it is to have the living word of the living God in my hands. Yet who am I but a bucket of dust before him? Failing and falling each moment? Yet still not a single promise from that blessed Word will ever be blotted out. How is it that I who do not have clean hands can grasp the Bible? How is it that I who do not have clean eyes can lay my eyes upon it? Oh, I find myself the most worthy of judgments to have my hands melt and my eyes burn even in ...

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_The Dark Night of the Soul

Saturday - October 3, 2009 Around 3:30 in the afternoon, my mom caught a fever. I was supposed to go out to the mall to read my books and give out Gospel tracts to people. I had to stay due to my mom's condition and take care of her. 4:30 in the afternoon, we watched the new Superman/Batman movie released by DC Comics in mom's room. 5:30 in the afternoon, I went to bed. Woke up at 6:30 in the evening, I caught her fever. I caught her fever and something else happened while I was asleep. Backstory: For 2 weeks or more I have been ...

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