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Earth isn't Heaven, that's why you should want to go there
Prayer works. It's true. It's not a science, but it's true. God answers prayer. However, because it is not a science, some unbelievers...
Bible Brian
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When you don't know what to pray
One thing you'll notice in life is that Christians will often pray for opposite things. As an example, take Brexit. Many Christians...
Bible Brian
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Trust God's spinach
When Jesus said this, He was encouraging His followers to pray, knowing that God would answer them well. But one could look at this from...
Bible Brian
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Does God hear unbelieving prayers?
An interesting question to ask is whether or not God hears the prayers of the unbelievers. Or, more accurately, what does He do when they...
Bible Brian
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Why we pray for the government
Although it may seem to be, Moral Relativism is nothing new. When God is away, the sinners will play, and in Judges 21, we see such a...
Bible Brian
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Dad, may I have some money?
Prayer is often misunderstood, particularly by unbelievers, but also by believers. The key thing to remember about prayer is that while...
Bible Brian
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Faith is not a goad against which God cannot kick
Prayer is an often misunderstood thing. To an atheist, prayer is when a Christian commands God to grant a wish, like a genie, and God has...
Bible Brian
3 min read


Good fathers give good answers, even to bad requests
Using the analogy of a child asking his father for food, Jesus explains to us that God knows exactly how to bless us as Christians. When...
Bible Brian
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Even if you feel like you're in Hell, pray
Psalm 88 is an unusual one. A lot of Psalms may include despair, but often include words of hope or encouragement. Psalm 88, by contrast,...
Bible Brian
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Psalm 88: Crying out to God in troubles
If there's one thing Psalmists were good at, it's expressing their feelings honestly. Several times, we see the Psalmists expressing...
Bible Brian
4 min read


According to His will
Prayer is a very easy thing to misunderstand. It is often seen, especially in our culture, as a way of controlling or manipulating God....
Bible Brian
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Why pray if God knows what we will pray?
Some ask the question "if God knows what I'm going to pray for, why would I need to pray?" Of all the uninspired human responses, I like...
Bible Brian
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You shouldn't pray to God if...
It's not often you'll hear a faithful Christian discourage prayer. Should we talk to God? Of course! But Biblically speaking, what we...
Bible Brian
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Fulfilling a famous prayer
One of the biggest struggles with the Lord's prayer is that, being an effectively scripted prayer, we don't tend to think of what the...
Bible Brian
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What it really means to pray in Jesus' name
An often misunderstood saying of Jesus is "whatever you ask in my name, I will do it". To many, this sounds like quite the special...
Bible Brian
3 min read


God won't answer selfish prayers, and you don't want Him to
A common error that needs to be done away with in any discussion on prayer is to assume God is some kind of genie. With genies, the one...
Bible Brian
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The boy who prayed the alphabet
As simple as prayer seems like it should be, it can often be quite a struggle. We might be “too busy” to pray. We might struggle to think...
Bible Brian
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Christ answers prayer to glorify the Father in the Son
We are often reminded that Jesus promised to do whatever we ask in His name, but this is far too often oversimplified. As Christians, we...
Bible Brian
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Our daily bread
A critical error of the human race is that we often give ourselves too much credit. Obviously, there is a sense in which we provide for...
Bible Brian
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When prayer gets deadly
I don't think anything sums up the point I'm making in this article more than the phrase "I asked God, she's ok with it". This is the...
Bible Brian
4 min read
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