February 24: I’m Not a Theatrical Production

Affirmation: Choose to Authentic. Let go of what others think.



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Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Today read the verse over several times and carry your notecard. Ask God to help you practice and personalize this verse.
Deuteronomy 7:9

 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. 

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Praying the Message of Jesus: A Year of Thoughts and Prayers
by Eugene Peterson

                  Feb 24


I’m Not a Theatrical Production

"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat?" 

MATTHEW 6:5

Prayer that is used for any other purpose, no matter how lofty, than to personally converse with a personal God is a sham. It must never be used as a part of public relations. It must.never be put to the services of creating a good image.


Why might someone be tempted to make a show out of his or her prayers?

 

Free my spirit, God, from self-consciousness and self-righteousness. Forgive me for confusing the outward and the inward. Let my prayers be spontaneously honest and personally passionate. Amen

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