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This is the second of three days of directed prayer based on the devotional for Day 21. If you have not read it, read it first and then follow the flow of prayer through Day 23, 24 and 25. "For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God...

This is the first of three days of directed prayer based on the devotional for Day 21. If you have not read it, read it first and then follow the flow of prayer through Day 23, 24 and 25. "Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world?" O God who has made me body...

1 Corinthians 1.20-25 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased...

1 Corinthians 3.18-19 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God.  “With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the...

1 Corinthians 1.18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. To be saved requires our being made part of a people separated from the world so that we can be united in spite of—or...

1 Peter 2.9-10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;...

Psalm 105.4-5 Seek the Lord and his strength! Seek his presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered. "Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go...

Hebrews 11.1-2 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand...

Mark 3.36-37 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Part of learning the type of self-denial that Christ calls us to is to learn to value life the way God does instead of the...

Mark 8.34-35 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake,...