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C HAPTER 2: F IRST T HINGS F IRST 1. I suggest that our morning prayer include asking God for provision in the unscheduled, unplanned interruptions that are bound to happen. 2. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc., 1935), p. 236. 3. Paul E. Billheimer, Destined for the Throne (Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania: Christian Literature, Crusade, 1975), p. 132. 4. Bill Hybels, Too Busy Not to Pray (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1988), p.151. 5. Terry Muck, Liberating the Leader’s Prayer Life , The Leadership Library, vol. 2 (Waco: Word Books, 1985), p. 154ff. An excellent book that deals with the prob- lems of prayerlessness and shares how various lead- ers have solved this problem in their own lives. 6. Andrew Murray, The Prayer Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, new edition 1988), p. 15. Read his first three chapters for some challenging thoughts about the deeper implications of “The Sin and Cause of Prayerlessness,” “The Fight Against Prayerlessness” and “How to Be Delivered from Prayerlessness.” 7. Ibid., p. 21. 8. Matthew 26: 40, 41. 9. Note 1 Cor. 14 where tongues is particularly described as a gift to enable our personal communi- cation with God.

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