What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God. And the Psalms show us how to answer Eugene Peterson.

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What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God. And the Psalms show us how to answer Eugene Peterson

I will take refuge in the shadow of Your wings until the disaster has passed

I will take refuge in the shadow of Your wings until the disaster has passed

I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfils His purpose for me

Awake, my soul! Awake harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn

Foolishness Loneliness Restoration

By praying you do not get out of the difficult work of sin, enemy and family, you get further into it Eugene Peterson