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Different Types of Prayer (2)

‘Pray…with all [manner of] prayer.’ Ephesians 6:18 AMP Here are three more types of prayer: (1) The prayer of petition. You must learn to be confident in asking God to meet your needs. Jesus promised, ‘Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will […]

Different Types of Prayer (1)

‘Pray…with all [manner of] prayer.’ Ephesians 6:18 AMP In Scripture there are many different kinds of prayer. Let’s look at some of them and see what we can learn: (1) The prayer of surrender. When Paul met Christ on the Damascus Road he prayed, ‘Lord, what do You want me to do?’ (Acts 9:6 NKJV) […]

Billy

‘God… chose things the world considers foolish.’ 1 Corinthians 1:27 NLT Writing about his time at a teen Bible camp, a counsellor tells this story: ‘Teenage boys have a tendency to pick on some unfortunate child. That summer it was 13-year-old Billy, a child who couldn’t walk or talk right. When the children from his […]

You’ll Ask God to Bless Them

‘Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us.’ Ephesians 5:2 NKJV Walking in love and forgiveness is difficult on several fronts. (1) It goes against your carnal nature. (2) There’s a chance others may never know you forgave the offence. (3) Your heart could break as you watch God bless the offender in answer […]

You’ll Walk in Forgiveness

‘He spoke very kindly to them, reassuring them.’ Genesis 50:21 TLB Seventeen years after being reunited with Joseph, his long lost son, Jacob died and Joseph’s brothers panicked. They started to think, ‘Now Joseph will pay us back for all the evil we did to him.’ (Genesis 50:15 TLB) So they got together, made up […]

You’ll Protect Them

‘You shall be near to me…and…I will provide for you.’ Genesis 45:10–11 NKJV Not only did Joseph forgive his brothers, he protected them from their worst nightmare—having to go back and tell their ageing father what they’d done twenty-two years earlier. Joseph is a step ahead of them; he tells them what to say and […]

You’ll Preserve Their Dignity and Self-Worth

‘Be full of love for others.’ Ephesians 5:2 TLB Imagine how Joseph’s brothers felt when he said, ‘It was not you who sent me here, but God.’ (Genesis 45:8 NKVJ) Is he serious? God did it? This is a new level of forgiveness! When we recognise the hand of God in our lives we see […]

You Won’t Lay a Guilt Trip on Them

‘Don’t be angry with yourselves.’ Genesis 45:5 TLB Joseph told his brothers, ‘Don’t be angry with yourselves that you did this to me…God has sent me here to keep you and your families alive, so that you will become a great nation.’ (Genesis 45:5–7 TLB) When are we most likely to lay a guilt trip […]

You Won’t Try to Intimidate Them

‘You did not receive a spirit…to fear, but…of sonship.’ Romans 8:15 NIV Joseph’s brothers ‘were…stunned with surprise. “Come over here,” he said. So they came closer. And he said again, “I am Joseph, your brother whom you sold into Egypt! But don’t be angry with yourselves that you did this to me, for God did […]

You Won’t Talk About It

‘You meant evil…but God meant it for good.’ Genesis 50:20 NKJV Twenty-two years after selling Joseph into slavery, his brothers now stand before him as prime minister of Egypt. They don’t recognise him, and he holds their fate in his hands. If you’d been in his shoes, what would you have done? Got even? Reminded […]