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John Bunyan said, “He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.” The line is not legalism. It is…
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Shoving It All Back
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis wrote: “The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.” Prayer begins by refusing to let the urgent claims of the self set the agenda.
How you’d preach it
For the first moments of the day. Prayer as the reordering of the rushing wants.
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