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Prayers from Scripture

Week Five

This prayer parable gives the two sides of prayer. One is focused on "I" and the other on "God" and His justice and holiness. How can we apply this example
to our prayer life?

A penitent sinner's prayer.
Luke 18: 10-14

V.10. "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. V. 11. "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. V. 12. 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' V. 13. “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' V. 14. "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

From my heart to yours,
Sandra J. Mikler Davis
Director, Women in Discipleship, inc.
Womenindiscipleship.org

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