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May 2024
1h 9m

When God Listens: His Ear and Our Access

DESIRING GOD
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David Mathis | When we stop and look, we find that we know a lot more about Jesus’s spiritual disciplines than we might think. What can we learn from the prayer life of the Savior? 
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