Jesus’ Model for Prayer

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Jesus' Model for Prayer By Jodie Berndt (Bible Gateway Blog) I don't know about you, but I spent a lot of years thinking that prayer was basically a one-way conversation in which I'd ask God for what I thought would be good and then see what happened. If my relationships or my circumstances lined up with my requests, I would know that God said yes. And if not, he said no. I didn't begrudge God when he turned me down (I knew verses like Isaiah 55:9, which explains that God's ways and his thoughts are higher than ours), but I much preferred it when I'd put in a prayer and get the answer I wanted. I liked it when prayer worked like a vending machine. But that's not how Jesus sees prayer.... Continue Reading Why Body Image Is a Spiritual Issue By Jess Connolly (Bible Gateway Blog) I was riding in the back of one of my parents' cars; I can't quite remember which one. It was the early '90s, and seatbelts felt more negotiable then, so I was lying down on my left side, facing the floorboard, which was littered with kids' road trip materials—coloring books, crayons, a few small plastic toys. The warm southern sun was beating down on the parts of my body that weren't tucked into the cloth seats, warming my skin, my cotton t-shirt, and shorts. I was about to turn nine years old.... Continue Reading Why You Need Good Fences in Your Life By Jennifer Dukes Lee (Bible Gateway Blog) If I could lose my salvation, it would have happened the day a rogue pig showed up in our yard. My hands were wrist-deep in dishwasher when I saw it out of the corner of my eye—a blur, a moving blob at first. And then I made out the figure as it scooted behind the shed, its pink rump shimmying in all its corpulent glory. This immediately caused alarm ... Continue Reading   - Want more? Subscribe to one or more of the following devotional email newsletters published jointly by Bible Gateway and Zondervan Books: Boundaries (weekly) Investigating Faith with Lee Strobel (weekly) The Daniel Plan (weekly) The Daniel Prayer (a 5-day devotional journey) The Seven Money Types (a 9-day Bible study) Care Instructions for a Life Worth Living with John Ortberg (weekly) Want a FREE eBook? Sign up for the Zondervan Books Weekly email newsletter and receive the PDF eBook Daily Power: The First 31 Days by Criag Groeschel, taken from Craig's devotional Daily Power. Learn More Here - Follow along for more!  This email was sent to mucomacamucomaca.muco@blogger.com by Bible Gateway, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA. This email is part of a devotional or newsletter that you signed up for on BibleGateway.com. If you have questions or comments about this email, please contact us.   Manage all Bible Gateway subscriptions — Opt Out of all Bible Gateway communication -