5 hard things to pray for your husband

“Your husband doesn’t only need you to pray that he has a good day, is successful, and walks with Jesus. These are not bad requests, but are rather generic prayers that have too little specific direction behind them. What our husbands need from us are specific prayers, hard prayers, for their growth in godliness. I love my husband and I want what is best for him. And the best thing for him is to be a man who who lives for the glory of God.

Here are five hard prayers I pray for my husband, and would encourage you to pray for yours.”

Jen lists these and explains briefly what she means.

1. Conviction of sin
2. Humility of heart
3. Patience in life
4. Love for God
5. Discipline from God

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Free R. C. Sproul resources: answering tough questions

Right now, you can get R. C. Sproul’s 17-volume Crucial Questions series for free!

Throughout these 17 books, Sproul explores the core questions people ask about Christianity. You’ll get titles like Can I Be Sure I’m Saved?, Does God Control Everything?, What Is Faith?, and Who Is the Holy Spirit?—books that give you simple, biblical responses to some of the most challenging issues in apologetics and evangelism. (Note you don’t have to invest any money in Logos to read this material. They have a free Vyrso Reader).

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Could I please microwave godliness?

An Ordinary Pastor named Erik reminds us of how Christians become godly.

If you have been spiritually lazy and not giving the Bible its rightful place. If you have been banking on the “Get spiritual quick” schemes then you can make the change. You can realize that you cannot microwave your holiness. You don’t start talking like John Piper or DA Carson by simply saying “I’d like to be a godly man.” You and I have got to decide to walk the slow, winding narrow path of biblical faithfulness day after day. Then, after a period of time we will turn around, and, by God’s grace, say, “God has changed me.” This is how he does it.

Read more from a short post called The Compound Effect

 

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7 things you can do when suffering

Vaneetha shares what she needs to remind herself as she suffers:

I sit at the counter, tears streaming down my face, flooded with emotion. I scream into my empty house, “God, how could you do this to me? Don’t you love me? I’ve been faithful. Doesn’t that count for something? Why don’t you fix this?” Then I finish my tantrum with God, and sink into self-pity. I decide that God answers other people’s prayers but not mine. That he is unconcerned about my pain. And that my suffering is meaningless.

Of course, these are the lies of Satan.

I wish I didn’t listen to them, or know them by heart, or repeat them almost instinctively.

I wish, in the heat of battle, when life is falling apart, my first response would be grace-filled. Patient. Christ-like. I wish that I would savor the sweetness of God’s sustaining grace, and never question him again. But unfortunately I’m not there. Not yet.

So I close my eyes and breathe deeply. I need to repent. To heed Martyn Lloyd–Jones advice: To stop listening to myself and start talking. On the back of an envelope, I jot down what I need to remind myself.

Seven things I must do.

Keep reading here: Seven Things That Transform Suffering

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“Help: I am grumpy!”

Tim Challies has a post that will help you when you are just plain grumpy.  This is a great post to read on a Monday morning or any other time you might find yourself battling impatience, irritability or unrighteous anger.  Tim suggests a process that you can complete in a just a few minutes that will help you overcome this sin.  By going to the gospel, calling it what it is, giving it a name, going to the source, and countering error with truth, you can put off grumpiness and put on the fruit of the Spirit which is joy!

So read “How to Beat that Bad Mood” and apply the biblical counsel now!

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When God doesn’t notice us

“We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.” —John Calvin

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A free MacArthur book: Found God’s Will

John MacArthur’s book Found: God’s Will is free on Kindle!  Today only (from what I understand).  Get it here now!

 

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“Noah movie is evil, disgusting, and boring”–Ken Ham

Ken Ham after watching the Noah Movie:

I am disgusted. I am going to come right out and say it: this movie is disgusting and evil—paganism! Do you really want your family to see a pagan movie that portrays Noah as a psychopath who says that if his daughter-in-law’s baby is a girl then he will kill her as soon as she’s born? And when two girls are born, bloodstained Noah (the man the Bible calls “righteous” in Genesis 7:1) brings a knife down to the head of one of the babies to kill her—and at the last minute doesn’t do it. And then a bit later, Noah says he failed because he didn’t kill the babies. How can we recommend this movie and then speak against abortion? Psychopathic Noah sees humans as a blight on the planet and wants to rid the world of people.

I feel dirty—as if I have to somehow wash the evil off myself. I cannot believe there are Christian leaders who have recommended that people see this movie.

It’s as if someone heard the name Noah, and that there was a Flood and an Ark, and then made up a pagan movie about it. I don’t think there is anything else that really has to do with the Bible’s account except some names of people! For example, Methuselah is some sort of witch doctor who can do magical things. There is much more I could say about it—so much more. And what’s with the bizarre fallen angels being living rocks that help Noah?

I suggest you join us at CreationDebate.org tonight for our live stream at 8 PM eastern time. A number of AiG researches watched the movie last night as well, and several of us will be on the live stream to explain what we saw and heard.

. . . Oh, and it is also a boring movie—yes, boring! Worst movie I think I’ve ever seen.

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Starting the day with Newton

A simple but powerful thought:

“The hour is coming when we shall be astonished to think what mere trifles were once capable of discouraging us.” (John Newton)

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A GREAT Kindle deal

A high quality book full of graphics and fascinating facts about the OT Temple. Normal price of $30. On sale now for only $4 on Kindle (Remember you don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books.

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