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Tip-Off #23 - Prayer

Tip-Off #23 - Prayer

Thousands lined the tracks as FDR’s funeral train passed by. A reporter asked a mourner, “Why are you here? Did you know Franklin Roosevelt?” The mourner replied: “No, but he knew me.”

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In the central book of the Bible the Psalmist cries out,

“My soul is in deep anguish. How long, Lord, how long?” Psalm 6:3

“Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide in times of trouble?” Psalm 10:1

“Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!” Psalm 130:1.

Then Jesus himself, quoting Psalm 22, verse 1: “My God, my God, why have you …

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