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Fortunately for me, these things do not occur regularly enough for me to consider them a habit.
A do, however, habitually pray when I am confronted with difficulties in my life. These prayers differ from the ones for trivial problems like the ones listed above; those prayers are more recriminations about my own bad-behavior. The prayers when I face real difficulties in my life are real prayers. I do have a deep and abiding faith in God, and I believe that He desires to help people with their problems. When confronted with something that I cannot resolve on my own, such as a family member's illness, I call upon Him for assistance. I also have enough faith to believe that...
I do not believe that God is like a friend to whom I should stop speaking, when He does not do what I ask. Instead, I believe that God does know better than I know. Therefore, when His answers are not the ones I wanted, I begin to pray in earnest, hoping that He will reveal His will to me, and help me to understand why I must pass through such difficulties. If I have learned anything from my study of the great leaders in the Bible, it is that even those who are in God's favor face hardship, maybe even greater hardships than those who are not in His favor. Therefore, all I can do is pray to God for understanding.
It indicates that he is set apart form all that is creaturely and corrupt, that he is distinct from this physical and fallen world. It affirms that God is not like humans, angels, false gods, animals -- or anything in existence. In short, we may say that there is no one like God, even though that statement has the obvious limitations of a negative sentence -- it does not
He worked to convince all of America that man was indeed created equal and his dream became a reality following his death. Today, largely based on his influence, races mingle at schools, churches and employment. Whereas there used to be a great division of ideas and traditions there is now a sharing of diverse cultures and ideas that can be blended together to create a more cohesive society (Wolfson,
Leaders Should Place Their Trust in God to Solve the Difficult Problems God is My CEO: Chapter 7—Tough Decisions Sometimes in life one is presented only with what seem like lose-lose situations. These are times when everything seems hopeless, when it seems there are no good solutions and like God has abandoned one to a miserable fate. However, if one sees with the eyes of God, one can see that there really
Great Awakening in America The Great Awakenings refer to several waves of interest in religion in America. These waves have coincided with increases in economic prosperity and materialism that have caused people to view religion with less interest. It began in the 1930s as disunited attempts at religious revival and in the 1940s had matured into "the remarkable Revival of Religion" (Lambert, p. 6). During the 1740 sThe Great Awakenings aimed
Leaders on Leadership One can see why a person might not pick up Leaders on Leadership on first glance. There are a good number of business books on the topic, and it could well be difficult to understand the mix of business and biblical thinking. But this product lives up to the promises of the subtitle. It is a good offer of Wisdom, Advice and Encouragement on the Art of Leading
God and Creation Has the concept of God well and truly woven itself into the very psyche of the average American citizen? What exactly does the average American think about God? As a matter of fact, each and every American must take some time to sit back and think deeply about these issues, and also pay close attention to the power and influence of God in the history of America. Perhaps