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A Collect for Contentment with Status
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be…
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A Collect for Fruitfulness
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and…
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A Collect for Accepting Harsh Truth
“Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.” – Luke 12:51 (ESV) Lord Jesus, who knew your…
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A Collect for Spiritual Values
“Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens…
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A Collect for an End to Striving
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” – Luke 12:32 (ESV) Generous God, who overflows…
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A Collect to Remember
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept…
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A Collect for Attachment to God
“But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the…
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A Collect for Right Attachments
“But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’” – Luke…
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A Collect for Satisfaction
‘And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his…
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A Collect for Forgiveness
‘Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.†But he said to him, “Man, who made me a…