FULL OF LIFE
Tobit 12:8-9 (not in the Protestant Bible)
Prayer is good with fasting, almsgiving, and righteousness. A few prayers with righteousness are better than many with wrongdoing. It is better to do almsgiving than to lay up gold. For almsgiving rescues one from death, and it will wash away every sin. Those who do almsgiving and are righteous will be full of life.
Personal Challenge
Raphael, the archangel continues his lesson on how to achieve full life and righteousness in this passage. If we desire for our prayers to carry more power, add to them fasting, almsgiving, and righteous living. This does not mean that by doing these things we earn God’s favor. We already have that in His grace and mercy. What comes from fasting, almsgiving, and righteous living is a discipline in our relationships with God and a cleansing in our lives. Because of this our prayers will be more aligned with God’s will. What happens here is that we are changed, not God. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lood, have mercy!
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