“Divine Answers to Life’s Most Difficult Problems”
Published almost twenty years ago, “Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To” by Anthony DeStefano changed how I pray and how I experience God’s answers to my prayer. Each of the following posts talks about what I got from his book, and how applying the principles in this book to my own life changed me.
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“Why Am I Here, Anyway?”
This prayer takes patience, and it takes perseverance. It takes courage and it takes faith. But if you and I are willing to pray it, and do what God shows us, there will be no regrets when we come to the end of our lives.
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“Will I Ever Be Happy Again?”
“God,” we might whisper through cracked lips and aching heart, “is there any way, any chance, You could bring good out of this bad situation?” This is possibly one of the most powerful prayers you and I can every bring to God.
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“I Don’t Know What To Do”
Wisdom is not just knowing the right thing to do, it is doing the right thing. In order to receive God’s wisdom you and I must already be prepared to follow through with what God shows us.
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“I Admit It: I Am Afraid”
“In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!” -Jesus
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“This Stress Is Killing Me!”
The more of us that we give to the Lord to fill, the more we will sense Jesus’s peace flooding our souls, that quiet, confident faith that pushes out fear, stress, and anxiety.
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“Am I a Terrible Person?”
There is great power in the words “God, please forgive me.” Not only will God forgive you and me, but God will clean out the wound.
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“I Can’t Take It Anymore!”
God is not the one authoring the harm. That is on the broken world, all the broken people (including you and me) in the world with our sharp edges, and the powers of evil that hate God and all that is good and lovely. But God does not leave it there. God insists on finding…
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“What’s In It for Me?”
The Bible also talks about being good stewards, being responsible as well as generous. You and I cannot spend what is not ours, what is supposed to cover our obligations. But we can be responsible and generous, just as God is.
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“Why Should I Get Involved?”
DeStefano points out this amazingly simple yet propfound truth:
When we help someone we reduce the amount of suffering in the world, we become part of the process of God working things together for good.
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Where Are You, God?
Are you really down about something right now? Just sick about it, you are so disappointed. Everything looks bad. What might happen if you went directly to God and asked the Lord to comfort you and encourage you?
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Why Won’t God Answer My Prayer?
Anthony DeStefano opens his book on prayer with this quote: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, ‘What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?’ Albert Einstein replied, ‘Find out about prayer. Somebody must find out about prayer.’”
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About Me
My passion for the Bible began when I was eight or nine years old, somewhere in there, when on occasion my dad would take me to synagogue, where he sang. I remember watching the men in synagogue pray the words of scripture, murmuring and weeping, lovingly touching and kissing the Torah, and I wished I could read what they were reading.
Imagine, then, my wonder when I was given a Bible of my own!
