Today, I want to
pray for more compassion.
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I don't know about you,
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but I love it when
the people around me
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extend compassion toward me,
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when they overlook my faults,
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when they extend
grace and kindness,
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when maybe I don't deserve that.
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When they come alongside me,
when I need someone the most.
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And yet, sometimes
in my own experience,
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I find that I might not
extend that same compassion
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towards someone else
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that I might react with
judgment instead of love.
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And even in my own
walk with God some mornings,
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when I pray to
Him, I feel as if maybe
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He's looking at
me with condemnation,
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instead of compassion.
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On those days, I'm
reminded of Lamentations 3.
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Lamentations 3:22-26.
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The Word of God says,
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"Through the Lord's
mercies we are not consumed,
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because His
compassions, they fail not.
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They are new every morning,
great is Your faithfulness.
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The Lord is my
portion, says my soul,
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therefore I hope in Him!
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The Lord is good to
those who wait for Him,
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to the soul who seeks Him.
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It is good that one
should hope and wait quietly
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for the salvation of the Lord."
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Don't you love those verses?
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Don't you love the, the
imagery of God's compassion
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and faithfulness,
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not just once a
week or once a year,
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but every day.
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Every day when I need it most.
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Let your heart be broken
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For a world in need
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Feed the mouths that hunger
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Soothe the wounds that bleed
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Give the cup of water
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And the loaf of bread
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Be the hands of Jesus, serving
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In His stead
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Here on earth applying
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Principles of love
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Visible expression, God
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Still rules above
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Living illustration
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Of the Living Word
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To the minds of all
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Who've never seen
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Or heard
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Dear Father, our
world is full of suffering
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in distress and disease.
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And we're in
constant and deep need
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of Christ-like sympathy
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that will awaken the
hearts of the people around us.
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Jesus, it was love
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that brought You to
this earth from heaven.
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And when You
looked upon the sick ones
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who followed You,
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I know Your great heart
was moved with compassion
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for their physical
and their spiritual needs.
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Yours is the same compassion
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that our heavenly
Father has for us.
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Your tenderness
and Your sympathy
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have touched and
changed millions of lives.
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And today I just ask
that You will fill us
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with Your
compassion for our friends,
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for our
neighbors, our acquaintances,
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even with strangers
that don't even know you yet.
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Please open our eyes to those
who have such desperate needs.
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Lord, what can
we do for you today?
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Lord, You are so gracious.
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Thank You for all
that You do for me.
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You have blessed me,
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even though I don't
deserve Your blessings.
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You tell me in Your Word
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that we are to have compassion
on those less fortunate.
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Yet too many times
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I become more wrapped up
in my own life and problems
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that I tend to forget
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or in blinded to the
needs of others around me.
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Lord, forgive me
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and open my eyes
to see others in need.
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Give me ears to
hear their pleas for help
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and open my heart
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to be interested
in their troubles.
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Teach me to slow
down and take the time
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to reach out to
those who need me.
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Break my selfish heart.
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And let me show
compassion for others
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like You did when
you walked this earth
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in Jesus' name, Amen.
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Heavenly Father, we are thankful
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that You are a God
of love and compassion.
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You sent Your only
begotten Son into this world
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to save sinners.
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Your word in
Lamentations 3:21-26
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tells us this.
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"This I recall to my
mind, therefore have I hope.
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It is of the Lord's mercies
that we are not consumed,
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because His
compassions fail not.
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They are new every morning,
great is Your faithfulness.
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The Lord is my
portion, saith my soul,
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therefore I hope in Him!
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The Lord is good unto
them that wait for Him,
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to the soul that seeketh Him.
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It is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait
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for the salvation of the Lord."
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Thank You, Jesus,
for being our rock,
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refuge and redeemer
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Blessed to be a blessing
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Privileged to care
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Challenged by the
need apparent everywhere
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Where mankind is wanting
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Fill the vacant place
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Be the means through which
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The Lord reveals
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His grace
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Add to your believing deeds
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That prove it true
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Knowing Christ as Savior
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Make Him Master, too
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Follow in His footsteps
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Go where He has trod In
the world's great trouble
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Risk yourself
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For God
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Dear Father, thank You for being
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such a loving and gracious God.
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Lord, I ask that You
would be with all those
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who are struggling right now.
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I know there's a lot of
people who have lost their jobs.
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There's uncertainty about
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when they're going to
get their next paycheck.
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And so many people
with sick loved ones.
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Lord, You told us
to treat others the way
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we want to be treated.
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So help us to show compassion.
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Even though a lot of us
are being affected as well,
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give us patience
and soften our hearts
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to show them Your
unconditional love.
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And it's in
Jesus' name that I pray.
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Amen
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Lord, as You
showed compassion for us,
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may the Holy Spirit overflow
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the same
compassion to others from us.
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As people are
in their struggles,
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give us a heart
of flesh towards them
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to take into
consideration of their needs
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and to give us compassion,
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not only for
Your people in need,
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but for those who are angry
about how the world is today,
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as we get closer to
the end of earth's history.
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Lord, You have shown us
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how to be compassionate
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toward others and commanded us
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to love your
neighbors as yourself.
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So, Lord, be with
Your remnant church
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in these final days,
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as we show compassion
to our brothers and sisters
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in Jesus Christ's name, I pray.
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Amen.
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I love 2 Corinthians 1:3-4,
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"Praise be to the God and Father
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of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Father of compassion
and the God of all comfort
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who comforts us in
all of our troubles,
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so that we can
comfort those in any trouble
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with the comfort we
ourselves receive from God."
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Father, I thank You for
being the Father of compassion,
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the God of all comfort.
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What awesome attributes
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that I want to
portray in my life,
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showing compassion
and comfort to others.
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Thank You for
setting the example.
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Lord, I pray for the viewers
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those who have
called in asking prayer
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for their family
and their marriages.
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This one says,
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"My niece
struggles with depression
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and it's taking its toll on her
and her two year old daughter
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in whom I sense a dark spirit.
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The father is
out of the picture.
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And so I pray Lord that both
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will desire to have
Jesus in their hearts."
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That same caller
says, "Pray for my marriage.
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And I struggle with my appetite.
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Pray that we
can have deliverance
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from the troubles in our lives.
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Oh, God, I think we can all
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cry out to You for deliverance.
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That thing that is standing
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between a closer
relationship with You.
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Destructive habits that we have
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that are part of
our human nature,
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God, I ask in Jesus'
name that Your supernatural
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would overpower our natural.
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Beyond just giving us
the desire and the want to,
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Lord, I pray that You
will truly do a work in us
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that we will know that
it was of You, oh, God.
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It had to be You.
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It had to be
the hand of the Lord
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that moved upon our situation.
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Was nothing that we could do.
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I pray for one who is,
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who has a son
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who has found himself in
a terrible drug situation.
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And, Lord, we pray
that he will be cut
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from this cord of the wicked
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and be set free to
choose to follow You.
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Lord, for those
who are watching,
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who are facing
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addiction to drugs
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or whatever
addiction that they're in.
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Lord, I believe that You
have given us the victory.
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I just ask that
You will strengthen
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our willpower
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to resist temptation,
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to flee from evil,
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to flee from, again,
our destructive habits.
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There's one who asks
for healing that says,
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"Please pray for a young
adult of our church family
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suffering from brain damage.
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Doctors are asking her
mother to make a decision,
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whether to keep her
on life support or not."
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Lord, we pray for
Your will to be done.
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God, we read of the
instances of healing
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that You performed in Your Word.
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God, we pray for miracles
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to happen in the
lives of our viewers
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who are in great need,
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desperate need
for a touch from You.
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We can be moved to
tears in our hearts broken
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by situations that
we can't understand,
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but that's only the beginning
of a compassionate heart.
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Doing something, taking
action, helping meet a need,
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put hands and feet to
your compassion today.
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Follow the Spirit's lead
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and risk yourself
to be used by God.
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time today to pause and pray.
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