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PRAYER INSIGHTS-WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT PRAYER

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The Bible encourages us to pray, while providing lots of examples and advice on how to do so: 
Mark 11:24 
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” 
Colossians 4:2 
“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.” 
James 5:16 
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” 
1 John 5:14 
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.”

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