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No expiration date on prayer
“Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do. And that’s a big difference! . . . Prayer is escape velocity. It’s how we get outside our spacetime limitations. It’s like our prayers exit the dimension we call time, and we never know when or where or how
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January 19, 2025
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January 20, 2025
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