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Prayer Facts:

“You don’t need self-discipline to pray continuously; you just need to be poor in spirit” Paul E. Miller (ref#62, p65).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You keep covenant, loving-kindness, and mercy for those who love You and keep Your commandments (Neh 1:5), I will wait for You.

Because You do not withdraw Your eyes from me (Job 36:7), I will wait for You.

Because You open my ears to instruction and discipline (Job 36:10), I will wait for You.

Because You give songs of rejoicing in the night (Job 35:10), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: May 27th – June 2nd

May 27      Prov 3; 2 Cor 13

May 28      Prov 4; Ps 33

May 29      Prov 5; Matt 1

May 30      Prov 6; Matt 2

May 31      Prov 7; Matt 3

June 1       Prov 8; Matt 4

June 2       Prov 9; Matt 5

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Prayer Facts:

“Prayer is asking and knocking at a door for something we have not, which we desire, and which God has promised to us” E.M. Bounds (ref#54, p182).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because Your breath gives life (Job 33:4), I will wait for You.

Because You form the spirit of man within him (Zech 12:1), I will wait for You.

Because You teach me more than the beasts of the earth and make me wiser than the birds of the heaven (Job 35:11), I will wait for You.

Because You do great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number (Job 5:9), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: May 20th – 26th

May 20      1 Kings 7; 2 Chron 4; 2 Cor 8

May 21      1 Kings 8; 2 Chron 5; 2 Cor 9

May 22      2 Chron 6-7; Ps 135

May 23      1 Kings 9; 2 Chron 8; 2 Cor 10

May 24      1 Kings 10-11; 2 Chron 9; Ps 29

May 25      Prov 1; 2 Cor 11

May 26      Prov 2; 2 Cor 12

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Prayer Facts:

“Prayer…cannot request too much because the Father desires to glorify his Son as much as possible” Bryan Chapell (ref#66, p97).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You have given me the Word of Truth and the Gospel of my salvation in CHRIST (Eph 1:13), I will wait for You.

Because You, FATHER, have blessed me in CHRIST with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm (Eph 1:3), I will wait for You.

Because You caused CHRIST to suffer by being tempted, therefore He is able to run to my cry as I am being tempted and exposed to suffering (Heb 2:18), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: May 13th – 19th

May 13      1 Chron 22-24; 2 Cor 2

May 14      1 Chron 25-27; 2 Cor 3

May 15      1 Kings 1; 1 Chron 28; 2 Cor 4

May 16      1 Kings 2; 1 Chron 29; 2 Cor 5

May 17      1 Kings 3; 2 Chron 1; 2 Cor 6

May 18      1 Kings 4-5; 2 Chron 2

May 19      1 King 6; 2 Chron 3; 2 Cor 7

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Prayer Facts:

“It is a vital necessity for Christians to think along the lines on which they pray. The philosophy of prayer is that prayer is the work” Oswald Chambers (ref#157, June 14th).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because Your stability and faithfulness are great and abundant (Lam 3:23), I will wait for You.

Because You are very compassionate and merciful (James 5:11), I will wait for You.

Because You are always fair and just (Isa 30:18), I will wait for You.

Because You give freedom to the prisoners (Ps 146:7), I will wait for You.

Because You give Your underserved favor to the low and humble and the afflicted (Prov 3:34), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: May 6th – May 12th

May 6      2 Sam 13-14; Ps 28

May 7      2 Sam 15-16; Ps 32

May 8      2 Sam 17: Ps 71

May 9      2 Sam 18; Ps 56

May 10    2 Sam 19-20; Ps 55

May 11     2 Sam 21-23; 2 Cor 1

May 12    2 Sam 24; 1 Chron 21; Ps 30

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Prayer Facts:

“There is nothing secret about communion with God. If we live a holy life before God, broken of our pride and self-will, crying out for grace, then we will be in communion with God. It is really that simple” Paul E. Miller (ref#62, p247).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You do not forsake those who seek You (Ps 9:10), I will wait for You.

Because You make a covering over those who take refuge in You and defend them (Ps 5:11), I will wait for You.

Because You will cause Your ear to hear the desires and the longing of the humble and oppressed, and will prepare and strengthen and direct their hearts (Ps 10:17), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: April 29th – May 5th

Apr 29            2 Sam 6; 1 Chron 13; Ps 27

Apr 30            1 Chron 14-15; 1 Cor 13

May 1              1 Chron 16; Ps 132

May 2             2 Sam 7; 1 Chron 17; 1 Cor 14

May 3             2 Sam 8-9; 1 Chron 18; 1 Cor 15

May 4             2 Sam 10; 1 Chron 19-20; 1 Cor 16

May 5             2 Sam 11-12; Ps 51

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Prayer Facts:

“God has decreed the means as well as the end, and among the means is prayer….It is God’s purpose that His will shall be brought about by His own appointed means, and that He may do His people good upon His own terms, and that is, by the ‘means’ and ‘terms’ of entreaty and supplication” A.W. Pink (ref#152, p137-138).

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because there are three that bear witness in heaven: the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY SPIRIT (1 John 5:7), I will wait for You.

Because in Your hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind (Job 12:10), I will wait for You.

Because You will remember Your covenant forever (Ps 111:5), I will wait for You.

Read Through the Bible in a Year: April 22nd – 28th

Apr 22            1 Sam 27; 1 Chron 9; 1 Cor 9

Apr 23            1 Sam 28-29; Ps 24

Apr 24            1 Sam 30-31; 1 Chron 10; 1 Cor 10

Apr 25            2 Sam 1; Ps 140

Apr 26            2 Sam 2; 1 Chron 11; Ps 142

Apr 27            2 Sam 3; 1 Chron 12; 1 Cor 11

Apr 28            2 Sam 4-5; 1 Cor 12

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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 8th – 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:

“…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 18th -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 11th – 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:

“No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy….if we pray for them, we are taking their distress and poverty, their guilt and perdition upon ourselves, and pleading to God for them. We are doing vicariously for them what they cannot do for themselves” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ref#10, p148-150).

 

Reasons for Waiting for GOD:

Because You formed my inward parts and knitted me together in my mother’s womb (Ps 139:13), I will wait for You.

Because You search me thoroughly and know me (Ps 139:1), I will wait for You.

Because You understand my thoughts and are acquainted with all my ways (Ps 139:2-3), I will wait for You.

Because You are upright and make my path level (Isa 26:7), I will wait for You.

Because You draw near on the day I call to You (Lam 3:57), I will wait for You.

Because You hear my voice and take up my cause (Lam 3:56,58), I will wait for You.

 

Read Through the Bible in a Year: January 29th – February 4th

Jan 29  Ex 23-24; Luke 22

Jan 30  Ex 25-27; Luke 23

Jan 31 Ex 28-29; Luke 24

Feb 1   Ex 30-32; Acts 1

Feb 2   Ex 33-34; Ps 10

Feb 3   Ex 35-36; Acts 2

Feb 4   Ex 37-38; Acts 3