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Heavenly Father, Today we ask You to bless our earthly fathersfor the many times they reflected the love, strength, generosity, wisdom and mercy that You exemplify in Your relationship with us, Your children. We honor our fathers for putting our needs above their own convenience and comfort;for teaching us to show courage and determination in the face of adversity;for challenging us to move beyond self-limiting boundaries;for modeling the qualities that would turn us into responsible, principled, caring adults. Not all our fathers lived up to these ideals.Give them the grace to acknowledge and learn from their mistakes.Give us the grace to extend to...

How to Pray (1 Kings 18:41-46) The prophet Elijah prayed, and the three and a half years of heavy drought has ended. How powerful is his prayer? I want my prayer to be such a powerful prayer as I pray. What would be a powerful prayer? I want to learn this through this prophet Elijah’s prayer.   Elijah prayed burying this face between his knees. It shows how earnest his prayer was. Earnest prayer is not easy prayer. Prayer smeared with tears and sweat. Prayer with whole heart and soul.   Ah… I do not know how light my prayers...

A Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)   Lazarus was a beggar when he was alive. The rich man lived so luxuriously when he was alive. However, when they died, their positions completely changed. The beggar goes to the high place. The rich went to the low place.   The status of this world did not guarantee the place of that world. The rich did not know when he was still alive. He absolutely believed that he was living so well. He thought that there was nothing wrong with his life. However, now he so much regrets and regrets in...

Leave Behind in Faith (Matthew 4:18-22)  The beginning of faith is leaving behind. Jesus left behind the throne of heaven. Peter and Andrew left behind the nets. John and James left behind their fathers.   What would they want to gain by leaving behind? Jesus gained our lives. Peter and Andrew gained the nets for men. John and James gained the heavenly Father. Faith is the way to gain bigger things through leaving behind. It is the way to find something more valuable through sacrifice.   Jesus said to Peter, “Follow me, and I will make you a fisher of men”,...

I Am Your Disciple (Matthew 4:18-22) Yesterday, and the day before yesterday, my day was the same. My job was a fisherman. In order to live, I had to lower the nets. And fight against the rough waves. The same work that my father did and my grandfather did. This same work to do until dying Fishing work that fatefully came down There was nothing I could do to make a living. This lowly work. The despised work. No one respects and wants to do. That was my job.   “God, will there be another chance of life for me?” “I...