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  1. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Many interpreters try to list prayer as one of the items in the armor, along with truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, and the Word of God. That won't work, however, because every other item is likened to something like a helmet, sword, or breastplate. When he comes to the end, he just says pray, pray, pray in the Spirit, pray with alertness, pray all kinds of ways, pray all the time.
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  2. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Yes, we should pray regardless of feelings, and yet we should do everything we can to engage and warm our hearts, because prayer is a lifting of the heart to God {Lam 3:41}.
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  3. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Augustine concludes, pour out your heart's desire, but remember the wisdom and goodness of God as you do so.
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  4. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Once you have learned to pray in full awareness of the disorderedness of your heart and where true joys are found, he says, you can be guided in the specifics of how to pray by studying the Lord's Prayer. Look at all the kinds of prayer in it-adoration, petition, thanksgiving, confession.
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  5. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    The Proverbs 30 prayer is different. It is to ask, "Lord, meet my material needs, and give me wealth, yes, but only as much as I can handle without it harming my ability to put you first in life. Because ultimately I don't need status and comfort-I need you as my Lord.
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  6. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    The principle: God speaks to us in his Word, and we respond in prayer, entering into the divine conversation, into communion with God.
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  7. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    If God's words are his personal, active presence, then to put your trust in God's words is to put your trust in God.
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  8. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    God's words, however, cannot fail their purposes because, for God, speaking and acting are the same thing. The God of the Bible is a God who "by his very nature, acts through speaking.
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  9. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Ward observes that the passage does not say that first God spoke and then he proceeded to do what he said he would do. No, his word itself brought the light about. When God names someone, his very word also constitutes the person.
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  10. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Ask and you shall receive" {Matt 7:7–8}-Ask with confidence and hope. Don't be afraid that you will ask for the wrong thing. Of course you will! God "tempers the outcome" with his incomprehensible wisdom. Cry, ask, and appeal-you will get many answers. Finally, where you do not get an answer, or where the answer is not what you want, use prayer to enable you to rest in his will.
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  11. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    On the one hand, we know that we "have not because we ask not" {James 4:2}. There are many goods that God will not give us unless we honor him and make our hearts safe to receive them through prayer. But on the other hand-what thoughtful persons, knowing the limits of their own wisdom, would dare to pray if they thought God would invariably give them their wishes? Endless stories of genies, lamps, and wishes illustrate the almost clichéd truth that our desires are, as we have seen, "discordantly arranged" and often fatally unwise. However, there is nothing to fear. God will not give us anything contrary to his will, and that will always include what is best for us in the long run {Rom 8:28}. We can, therefore, pray confidently because he won't give us everything we want. "He so tempers the outcome of events according to his incomprehensible plan that the prayers of the saints, which are a mixture of faith and error, are not nullified.
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  12. Timothy J. Keller _ Prayer: Experiencing Awe and

    Prayer both requires and empowers the abandonment of self-justification, blame shifting, self-pity, and spiritual pride.
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