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Your Daily Prayer

A Prayer to Long for Heaven

Your Daily Prayer

Your Daily Prayer

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Do you look forward to heaven? If I am being honest, my heart can be so focused on the now and building my “earthly kingdom” that I often miss the joy of focusing my thoughts and heart on eternal joys. - Emma Danzey

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Thank you for with your father in heaven. No matter what is going on in your life today, you can

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trust that God wants to hear from you. Right after this short word from our

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sponsor, we will pray through today's prayer.

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A prayer to long for heaven by Emma Danzy.

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Philippians 3.20 through 21 says,

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but our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior.

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The Lord Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body by the power that enables him even to subject

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all things to himself. Do you look forward to heaven? If I am being honest, my

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heart can be so focused on the now and building my

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earthly kingdom that I often miss the joy of focusing my thoughts and heart on

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eternal joys. It is not bad to be thankful for the beautiful blessings that we have been given from our father

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who loves to give good and perfect gifts.

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However, when we become consumed with the world, we need to be reminded and convicted that

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this world is not our true home.

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Maybe you have recently lost a loved one and are thinking more about life after death. Perhaps you are more aware

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of your aging body or your health declining. Today we are going to pray with joy that Jesus

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came so that we do not have to live in fear or

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dread of the future. We have the guarantee of heaven as believers in Jesus.

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Scripture tells us that Jesus is the only way to heaven and it is not what we can do to try to live a good life,

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but it is receiving what he has done by living the perfect life and dying on the cross for our sins rising again.

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1st Peter 1-3 tells us that Jesus is our living hope.

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