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What’s Wrong With The Sinner’s Prayer?
What’s Wrong With The Sinner’s Prayer?
“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” – Luke 18:13″
There’s nothing wrong with the ABOVE prayer. No one told the man to say it. No one told him that by saying it he would receive salvation or anything from God. God had apparently already… Continue reading
Spurgeon’s Arminian Prayer
The Prayer Of Those Who Believe In The False “Free Will” Gospel
Charles H. Spurgeon, a famous reformed (Calvinistic) Baptist preacher of the 1800s, is quoted in the following prayer. Spurgeon made up this “pharisaical prayer” in order to illustrate the human pride underlying the idea of an unsaved, ungodly, rebellious – and spiritually dead – sinner exercising his “free-will” to choose the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, i.e. to come to Christ of his own free-will.
“Lord,… Continue reading
A Wife’s Prayer
A Wife’s Prayer
Dear Lord,
Help me to be the kind of wife you want me to be.
Help me not to take my role as wife lightly or take my husband’s love for granted.
Help me to be a good listener, giving my husband my full attention so that I will be well aware of his concerns, aspirations, and needs.
Help me to pay attention to the advice my husband gives me when he… Continue reading
A Husband’s Prayer
A Husband’s Prayer
Dear Lord,
Help me to be the kind of husband you want me to be.
Help me not to take my role as husband lightly or take my wife’s love for granted.
Help me to be a good listener, giving my wife my full attention so that I will be well aware of her concerns, aspirations, and needs.
Help me to pay attention to the advice my wife gives me when she… Continue reading
A Marriage Prayer
A Marriage Prayer
Lord, be in this marriage
In a special way,
May we feel Your presence
Each and every day.
Grant us both good humor
To surpass our coming years;
May there always be much laughter,
May there always be less tears.
Give us strength and courage
To follow in Your will,
To trust You in the valley
As we do upon the hill.
Give us both the eyes of love
So we’ll always see… Continue reading