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Derek Loux sings the Acronym Song to the IHOP-KC staff. (Please note that this is all in good fun — IHOP is famous for their acronyms).

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I will never be asked to play music for the mayor of Roseville. It just wouldn’t happen. I’m sure he wouldn’t like spontaneous prophetic music even if he did want a concert of local musicians playing for him.
But let’s create a hypothetical scenario: I’ve been asked to play awesome blues on my cello for the [...]

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There’s something very special about waiting prayer. When practiced with the right motives, it can become the core of your prayer life — and a very important part at that.
What is it?
Waiting prayer is taking time to be still before the Lord. This concept is repeated over and over again in Scripture (Ps. 25:5, 25:21, [...]

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What is it?
While Eastern meditation attempts to empty the mind, this kind of meditation is an attempt to consume it with God. Biblical meditation is setting yourself before the Lord to receive revelation from His Word. The purpose is to receive more of the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:1-5 says how to get the knowledge [...]

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I want to get a huge factor out of the way before I continue this series on prayer: distraction.
Humans are weak — I live in a community of people who pray for a living and this issue comes up over and over again. We live such fast-paced lives (internally and externally) that when we try [...]

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We have a funny custom in prayer rooms. As soon as you walk in to one, you will notice random people pacing between or beside rows of chairs. Some people find pacers distracting, although it’s one of the things about a prayer room that you get used to pretty quickly.
The question is — why?

Some people [...]

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When I first went to IHOP, I thought prayer was boring. When I did pray, I would draw out my little prayer list so that it took a half hour and then go on with my day. I can’t pinpoint the exact time, but when I began to hear the people around me talk about [...]

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I love art in almost any form. Let me read your favorite lyrics or show me your child’s Sculpey turtle and I will probably love it. Recently, I dragged my boyfriend to a local art museum and he patiently waited as I marveled at my favorite painting…for nearly an hour.
I just have to believe that [...]

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Recently as I was pacing in the prayer room, I noticed 3 objects lying next to the sound booth: a health magazine, a conference on evangelism, and a Christian self-help book. Tears came to my eyes as I realized that we are so bored with God.
We all want to be entertained, stimulated, stare at something [...]

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For years I thought that prayer was the most dry, boring thing and I only capitulated when things were really bad or I was on a spiritual high (those happened about once a year). Don’t get me wrong, I did talk to God, I’ve always loved just carrying on a mental conversation with Him, but [...]

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