There are more idols in the world than there are realities. —Friedrich Nietzsche
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the beginning the feeling of poverty and absence usually dominates, but the best guides for this phase urge us not to turn back but rather to endure and pray in a disciplined way, until, as Packer and Nystrom say, we get through duty to delight.
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Prayer means knowing yourself as well as God
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the psalmist was spiraling down into deadly despair, he went in prayer to “the sanctuary of God; then I understood” (Ps 73:17).
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Prayer, then, is a response to the knowledge of God, but it works itself out at two levels.
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Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
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for God, speaking and acting are the same thing.
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