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Prayer Facts:

“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yea, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God” Arthur Pink (ref#152, p141).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You are high yet have respect to the lowly, bringing them into fellowship with You, but the proud and haughty You know and recognize only at a distance (Ps 138:6), I will wait for you.

Because You take thought and plans for me when I am poor and needy (Ps 40:17), I will wait for You.

Because if I call on You, You will show me great and mighty things (Jer 33:3), I will wait for you.

Because You will bless those who reverently and worshipfully fear You (Ps 115:13), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: April 8^th – 14th

Apr 8 1 Sam 6-7; 1 Cor 2

Apr 9 1 Sam 8-10; 1 Cor 3

Apr 10 1 Sam 11-12; 1 Chron 1

Apr 11 1 Sam 13; 1 Chron 2-3; 1 Cor 4

Apr 12 1 Sam 14; 1 Chron 4; 1 Cor 5

Apr 13 1 Sam 15-16; 1 Chron 5; 1 Cor 6

Apr 14 1 Sam 17; Ps 9

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Prayer Facts:

“In prayer all things here below vanish, and nothing seems important but holiness of heart and the salvation of others” The Valley of Vision (ref#76, p146).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You chose me, actually picked me out for Yourself as Your own in CHRIST before the foundations of the world (Eph 1:4), I will wait for You

Because You are to me a GOD of deliverance and salvation, setting me free (Ps 68:20), I will wait for You.

Because You bear my burdens and carry me day by day (Ps 68:19), I will wait for You.

Because You abide (live and remain) in me and Your love is brought to completion in me (1 John 4:12), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: April 1^st – 7th

Apr 1 Jud 13-16; Ps 21

Apr 2 Jud 17-18; Gal 3

Apr 3 Jud 19-21; Gal 4

Apr 4 Ruth 1-2; Gal 5

Apr 5 Ruth 3-4; Gal 6

Apr 6 1 Sam 1-2; 1 Cor 1

Apr 7 1 Sam 3-5; Ps 22

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Prayer Facts:

“Poverty of spirit enters into true praying. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’ ‘The poor’ means paupers, beggars, those who live on the bounty of others, who live by begging. Christ’s people live by asking. ‘Prayer is the Christian’s vital breath’” E. M. Bounds (ref#54, p32).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because righteousness and justice is the foundation of Your throne (Ps 97:2), I will wait for You.

Because You give skillful and godly wisdom and from Your mouth comes knowledge and understanding (Prov 2:6), I will wait for You.

Because Your mercy and loving-kindness endures forever (1 Chron 16:34), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: March 25^th – March 31^st

Mar 25 Josh 23-24; Ps 20

Mar 26 Jud 1-3; Mark 14

Mar 27 Jud 4-5; Mark 15

Mar 28 Jud 6-7; Mark 16

Mar 29 Jud 8, Ps 42

Mar 30 Jud 9-10; Gal 1

Mar 31 Jud 11-12; Gal 2

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Prayer Facts:

“…if I suffer, I learn how to pray. As I learn how to pray, I learn how to endure suffering” Paul E. Miller (ref#62, p21).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You relieve the fatherless and widow (Ps 146:9), I will wait for You.

Because You execute justice for the oppressed (Ps 146:7), I will wait for You.

Because You are a safe refuge for the poor (Ps 14:6), I will wait for You.

Because You send forth Your mercy and lovingkindness and Your truth and faithfulness (Ps 57:3), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: March 18^th -24th

Mar 18 Josh 3-6; Mark 8

Mar 19 Josh 7-8; Mark 9

Mar 20 Josh 9-11; Mark 10

Mar 21 Josh 12-14; Ps 19

Mar 22 Josh 15-17; Mark 11

Mar 23 Josh 18-20; Mark 12

Mar 24 Josh 21-22; Mark 13

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Prayer Facts:

“…don’t hunt for a feeling in prayer. Deep in our psyches we want an experience with God or an experience in prayer. Once we make that our quest, we lose God. You don’t experience God; you get to know him. You submit to him. You enjoy him. He is, after all, a person” Paul E. Miller (ref#62, p21).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit bruised with sorrow for sin (Isa 57:15), I will wait for You.

Because You have loved me with an everlasting love, and with loving-kindness have drawn me and continue Your faithfulness to me (Jer 31:3), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: March 11^th – 17th

Mar 11 Deut 19-21; Mark 4

Mar 12 Deut 22-24; Ps 15

Mar 13 Deut 25-27; Mark 5

Mar 14 Deut 28-29; Mark 6

Mar 15 Deut 30-31; Ps 16

Mar 16 Deut 32-34; Ps 18

Mar 17 Josh 1-2; Mark 7

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Prayer Facts:

“Conformity, to live one with God, is a far higher and more divine life than to live simply in submission to God. To pray in conformity—together with God—is a far higher and more divine way to pray than mere submission” E. M. Bounds (ref#54, p51,52).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You lift up the humble and downtrodden (Ps 147:6), I will wait for You.

Because You deliver the afflicted in their affliction and open their ears to Your voice in adversity (Job 36:15), I will wait for You.

Because You set on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn You lift to safety (Job 5:11), I will wait for You.

Because You have delivered and drawn me to yourself out of the control and dominion of darkness and transformed me into the kingdom of the Son You love (Col 1:13), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: March 4^th – 10th

Mar 4 Deut 1-2; Acts 26

Mar 5 Deut 3-4; Acts 27

Mar 6 Deut 5-6; Acts 28

Mar 7 Deut 7-9; Ps 14

Mar 8 Deut 10-12; Mark 1

Mar 9 Deut 13-15; Mark 2

Mar 10 Deut 16-18; Mark 3

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Prayer Facts:

“…there are burdens placed on us by God which He does not intend to lift off, He wants us to roll them back on Him….the burden is lightened by the sense of companionship. Never disassociate yourself from the burden” Oswald Chambers (ref#7, April 13^th).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because in CHRIST I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of my trespasses (Eph 1:7), therefore I will wait for You.

Because in CHRIST I am set free from the law of sin and death and given the law of the Spirit of life (Rom 8:2), therefore I will wait for You.

Because in CHRIST I am a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come (2 Cor 5:17), therefore I will wait for You.

Because in CHRIST neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate me from His love (Rom 8:38,39), therefore I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: February 26^th – Mar 3rd

Feb 26 Num 20-21; Acts 20

Feb 27 Num 22-24; Acts 21

Feb 28 Num 25-26; Ps 13

Feb 29 Num 27-29; Acts 22

Mar 1 Num 30-31; Acts 23

Mar 2 Num 32-33; Acts 24

Mar 3 Num 34-36; Acts 25

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Prayer Facts:

“The spirit of the world is the great hindrance to the Spirit of prayer. All our most earnest calls to men to pray more will be vain unless this evil is acknowledged and combated and overcome. The believer and the Church must be entirely freed from the spirit of the world….It is only through death to the world that we can be freed from its spirit….In Christ it was the crucifixion spirit and death that was the source of the intercession Spirit and power. With us it can be no other way either” Andrew Murray (ref#143, p118).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You are God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the terrible God, Who is not partial and does not take bribes (Deut 10:17), I will wait for You.

Because You are acquainted with and understand the heart (Acts 15:8), I will wait for You.

Because You preserve the way of Your saints (Prov 2:8), I will wait for You.

Because You guard the feet of Your godly ones (1 Sam 2:9), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: February 19^th – 25^th

Feb 19 Num 5-6; Acts 15

Feb 20 Num 7; Ps 23

Feb 21 Num 8-10; Acts 16

Feb 22 Num 11-12; Acts 17

Feb 23 Num 13-14; Ps 90

Feb 24 Num 15-17; Acts 18

Feb 25 Num 18-19; Acts 19

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Prayer Facts:

“Intercession means no more than to bring our brother into the presence of God, to see him under the Cross of Jesus as a poor human being and sinner in need of grace” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ref#28, p86).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because Your greatness is so vast and deep it is unsearchable (Ps 145:3), I will wait for You.

Because You are mighty in power of understanding and heart (Job 36:5), I will wait for You.

Because honor and majesty are found in Your presence and strength and joy are found in Your sanctuary (1 Chron 16:27), I will wait for You.

Because You are near to all who call upon You in sincerity (Ps 145:18), I will wait for You.

Because You show Yourself strong for those whose hearts are completely Yours (2 Chron 16:9), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: February 12^th – 18^th

Feb 12 Lev 18-19; Acts 9

Feb 13 Lev 20-22; Acts 10

Feb 14 Lev 23-24; Acts 11

Feb 15 Lev 25; Ps 25-26

Feb 16 Lev 26-27; Acts 12

Feb 17 Num 1-2; Acts 13

Feb 18 Num 3-4; Acts 14

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Prayer Facts:

“The high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, who is the Creator and Governor of all worlds, who bears up the pillars of the universe, and to whom all the powers in heaven, in earth, and in hell are subject, is the glorious object to whom we address ourselves in prayer” Octavius Winslow (ref#61. April 26^th).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because with You are perfect wisdom and might and You alone have true understanding (Job 12:13), I will wait for You.

Because whatever You do, it endures forever (Eccl 3:14), I will wait for You.

Because You are a stronghold in the day of trouble (Nahum 1:7), I will wait for You.

Because Your communion and counsel are with me (Prov 3:32), I will wait for You.

Because You know and are fully acquainted with my way (Ps 1:6), I will wait for You.

Because You give wisdom and knowledge and joy (Eccl 2:26), I will wait for You.

Because Your mercy and kindness and steadfast love endure forever (Jer 33:11), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: February 5^th – 11^th

Feb 5 Ex 39-40; Acts 4

Feb 6 Lev 1-3; Acts 5

Feb 7 Lev 4-6; Ps 11

Feb 8 Lev 7-9; Acts 6

Feb 9 Lev 10-12; Acts 7

Feb 10 Lev 13-14; Acts 8

Feb 11 Lev 15-17; Ps 12

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