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{Prayers of the New Testament} ~1

  A PRAYER OF MARY – praising the Mighty One_     What does praise look and feel like for you? It tends to be associated with music. Praise and worship songs, sometimes alone but usually as a congregation. Hymns, Psalms, and spiritual songs can lift our hearts to God in a wonderful way. Music can play a big part in filling our hearts with God’s goodness and love. Another thing that can evoke praise is a good story , particularly a story about God’s unexpected and powerful in tervention in someone’s life. Sometimes those stories are local and close: a friend describing an answer to prayer , someone telling a story in church about God’s faithfulness over their life. Other times those stories come from far away: how a Christian charity you suppo rt, makes a difference in one person’s life in a town in Ghana , or an online video from Open Doors talks about how God has miraculously worked among a group of Christians in an underground church in China.   Very different ...