Max
Lucado
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to follow. Likewise, in Before
Amen, Max Lucado explores
the very heart of Biblical prayer
by offering distilled, hope-filled
prayers that will help you turn
your heart towards the One
who longs to speak with you.`
Prayer is a lifeline, a beacon
of hope that we can cling to
in life’s difficult moments...
Lord, please protect my family...God, I need your help to
make it through today...Jesus,
thank you for your grace...It
goes on and on. Prayer is the
most necessary and most basic
expression of our faith, yet
we often struggle to do it. The
daily duties of life crowd in, filling our days with activity and
we don’t communicate with
our heavenly Father.
Thankfully, we aren’t the first
followers of Jesus to struggle
with prayer. The disciples did
too. In response to their question, Jesus gives them, and us,
a simple, beautiful example
Do you find it hard to believe
that the One who made everything keeps your name on
His heart and on His lips? Did
you realize that your name is
written on the hand of God (Is.
49:16)? Perhaps you’ve never
seen your name honored. And
you can’t remember when you
heard it spoken with kindness.
In this book, Lucado offers the
inspiration to believe that God
has already bought the ticketwith your name on it.`
As believers in Christ, we claim
to understand grace. From
Sunday school to adulthood
we’ve been taught that we’re
saved by grace. We know the
Bible verses and the sinner’s
prayer, but have we really
taken hold of it? Or rather, has
it taken hold of us?
Grace isn’t a nice idea. It’s not
a song lyric, or a warm, fuzzy
feeling. It’s the radical life of
Christ lived in you. Grace gives
you the freedom to love the
unlovable, and forgive the unforgivable, because you know
how much you’re loved, and
know how much you’ve been
forgiven.`
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