{"query": "Devotional: Prayer: Morning Offering", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6cc7691634e0", "title": "Easton: Lord’s Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the only form of prayer Christ taught his disciples (Matt. 6:9-13). The closing doxology of the prayer is omitted by Luke (11:2-4), also in the R.V. of Matt. 6:13. This prayer contai"}, {"id": "card_n_6ae2bda95465", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Morning Offering", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I spend my mornings praying and studying the Bible. I fast to stay focused on God, give thanks for the meals He provides, pray daily for guidance, and take opportunities that come through Him."}, {"id": "card_n_bc90bbe21cfc", "title": "Easton: Heave offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to th"}, {"id": "card_n_37fd58b5ed80", "title": "Easton: Burnt offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew olah; i.e., “ascending,” the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly burnt,"}, {"id": "card_n_a18d58cb31f3", "title": "Easton: Meat-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word came latterly to denote an “unbloody” sacrifice, as opposed to a “bloody” sacrifice. A “drink-offering” generally accompanied it. The law"}, {"id": "card_n_e91e5b22158f", "title": "Easton: Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or forma"}, {"id": "card_n_19b10fa2e595", "title": "Leviticus 16", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD, and died;\n2. and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time"}, {"id": "card_n_0e4db0590ef1", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q99", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?\n\nThe whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciple"}, {"id": "card_n_714a3d277588", "title": "Devotional: Reflection: Living Sacrifice", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To be a living sacrifice means to surrender daily. It is not a one-time offering but a continual laying down of self. Every thought, every action, every desire — given over to Him.\n\nThis is our reason"}, {"id": "card_n_7e27e8be7086", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Surrender to God’s Will", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, not my will but Yours be done. My heart resists, but I know only in surrender is there peace. Help me die to myself each day, to trust You fully, and to walk in obedience. Your ways are higher, "}, {"id": "card_n_f5afcf5cece3", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Daily Seeking God’s Guidance", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Father, I wake each day seeking Your guidance. I know that without You I am blind, stumbling in darkness. But with You, the path is straight, and the light is sure.\n\nTeach me to quiet my heart, to hea"}, {"id": "card_n_a319c7aa177c", "title": "Easton: Nazarite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there "}, {"id": "card_n_0e9dce3540f1", "title": "Genesis 22", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”\n2. He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer "}, {"id": "card_n_c6ff957ce5cf", "title": "Easton: Trespass offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘asham, “debt”), the law concerning, given in Lev. 5:14-6:7; also in Num. 5:5-8. The idea of sin as a “debt” pervades this legislation. The asham, which was always a ram, was offered in cases wh"}, {"id": "card_n_f892ad08e12e", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q98", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What is prayer?\n\nPrayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies."}, {"id": "card_n_154d4d078d35", "title": "Easton: Star, Morning", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name figuratively given to Christ (Rev. 22:16; comp. 2 Pet. 1:19). When Christ promises that he will give the “morning star” to his faithful ones, he “promises that he will give to them himself, tha"}, {"id": "card_n_ed96d3cb2c75", "title": "Devotional: Parable: The Sword in the Fire", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A piece of steel may be worth $100. A sword, $1,000. The sword of a master, $10,000. But the sword wielded by the Conqueror to crush Satan is priceless. Be that sword."}, {"id": "card_n_a1e237176346", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Lord, Make Me a Tool Worn to Your Hand", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God what is next for me? I look for your light. I can’t see the way. Please make my way known. I do not want to spend my life in the wilderness. I seek your face.\n\nOpen the door to my next chapter O’ "}, {"id": "card_n_cbc9c6746232", "title": "Devotional: Reflection: Called to Lead", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Men and women are called to lead in their spheres — first in their homes, then in their communities. Leadership is not about domination but about service and sacrifice. We lead as Christ led, laying d"}, {"id": "card_n_b71f054ebab7", "title": "Devotional: Reflection: Faith and Trials", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Faith grows not in comfort but in trial. The testing of faith purifies, like gold in fire. Though painful, it draws us nearer to God, strips away pride, and teaches us endurance. The end of such testi"}]}