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"Lord, teach us to pray"
--Luke 11:1
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Welcome to the St. Paul's Prayer site. Here you may find general
information about prayer, specific prayers from the St. Paul's
community, and links to other prayer and devotional sites. The
St. Paul's community may also submit a prayer request via email,
using the Paryer Request Form.
What is prayer? From Frederick Buechner's book, entitled Wishful Thinking:
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Whatever else it may or may not be, prayer is at least talking to
yourself, and that's in itself not always a bad idea.
Talk to yourself about your own life, about what you've done and what
you've failed to do and about who you are and who you wish you
were and who the people you love are and the people you don't
love too. Talk to yourself about what matters most to you, because if
you don't, you may forget what matters most to you.
Even if you don't believe anybody's listening, at least you'll be
listening.
Believe Somebody is listening. Believe in miracles. That's what Jesus
told the father who asked him to heal his epileptic son. Jesus said,
"All things are possible to him who believes." And the
father spoke for all of us when he answered, "Lord, I believe;
help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:14-29)
What about when the boy is not healed? When, listened to or not
listened to, prayer goes unanswered? Who knows? Just keep praying,
Jesus says. . . . Keep beating the path to God's door, because the
one thing you can be sure of is that down the path you beat with even
your most half-cocked and halting prayer the God you call upon will
finally come, and even if he does not bring you the answer you want,
he will bring you himself. And maybe at the secret heart of all our
prayers that is what we are really praying for.
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Recent Answers To Prayer
A Favorite Written Prayer,
submitted by: The Prayer Group
Lord Jesus, we come now from an unquiet world into your quiet
presence; we come from a distraught, divided world of conflict,
terror, oppression into a kingdom which you have brought on earth
where peace prevails, justice triumphs and love is an ever-present
reality. We come from our jumbled, distracted, divided selves to
become, if we can, rooted and grounded once again in you. From our
frantic, superficial busyness we turn to open ourselves to your peace;
we turn from ourselves to you.
We wait now, not so much for a sense of your presence but for
yourself -- that we may become truly ourselves in you and through you,
and then go back into our world to help make in yours, rejoicing,
hoping, laughing -- with you who has made it and us your
own.
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Prayers for a Woman of Faith
by New Life Clinics
This book features Scripture verses grouped under categories such
as "Confession", "Dedication", "Healing, Restoration and Peace",
and "When Facing Difficult."
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