A church sign near my new residence reads: “The 21 Most Effective Prayers of the Bible.”
I am so grateful for this new series.
God, being without personality, is like a machine into which we may type our requests, and if we punch in the right codes, we’ll get all kinds of cool stuff.
Some people even say we could have anything we wanted — if we just get the code right.
We know from the Old Testament, for example, that King David entered into the Holy of Holies — and was not struck dead — because he had just uttered The Prayer of Jabez. Clever guy.
satire
liturgical 
Yes, He is almost like a giant vending machine…
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It is a shame that Elisha’s curse of the wild she bears is a prayer that is never described. Otherwise, the power to summon wild she bears at will with a clever litany would surely have been included in 21 most effective prayers.
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