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The Power in Petition – Psalms 5:8 – 5:12

Dennis Rainey’s animal traps

Several years ago at a Promise Keepers conference, Dennis Rainey placed animal traps on stage. They were big ones too. Bear traps and even an African safari large animal trap that took two men to open. There were a dozen or so traps, and he set or opened them all. Then Dennis Rainey had a father blindfold his teen-age son, the father then walked to the other side of the stage and called his son to come to him. The boy took one step and the Father called out, Wait! I’ll keep you from stepping in the traps. So this Dad went back across the stage, took his son’s hand and leads him through the difficult maze of traps. Such is the heart of this petition. “Father, keep me out of the traps.” (Source Unknown).