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Philippians 4:6 reads, "Offer up your prayers and requests to God."   The Bible says, "With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God. Then...God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you...

Mark 14:6 reads, "She has done a beautiful thing to me."   Most of us are good actors, but it's difficult to fake a reaction. And when the woman broke the alabaster jar, the reaction of the disciples is telling, "Why this waste?" They thought she was pouring her...

Mark 14:5 reads, "More than a year's wages."   It's possible the alabaster jar of perfume represented every penny of this woman's life savings. The value is evidenced by the fact that two gospel writers find it noteworthy enough to give us a written estimate: 300...

Luke 7:37 reads, "A woman who had lived a sinful life...brought an alabaster jar of perfume."   The Bible says, "A woman who had lived a sinful life...brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping...poured perfume on them" (Luke...

Acts 6:4 reads, "We will give ourselves...to prayer and...the word."   In Disciplines of a Godly Man, pastor and author R. Kent Hughes says: "Jay Sidlow Baxter once shared a page from his own personal diary with a group of pastors who had inquired about the discipline...

2 Samuel 24:24 reads, "I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the Lord my God that have cost me nothing."   Instead of trusting God for victory over his enemies, David decided of his own volition to count the number of troops in his army to...