Churchill’s three-word charge meets Moses’ raised arms to reveal why the fiercest battles are fought in the heart and won through persevering prayer. We trace Amalek’s modern faces, the power of intercession, and how community keeps our tired hands lifted.

• Amalek as a symbol of resistance to God
• The heart as the primary battlefield
• Moses, Aaron and Hur as a model of intercession
• The church at prayer across the world
• How community sustains perseverance
• “Never give up” reframed as “never give up praying”
• Practical ways to keep praying when tired

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Gratitude and faith move together as we unpack Luke 17, Naaman’s healing, and why the Eucharist is a weekly school of thanksgiving. We share how simple obedience “on the way” opens space for healing, and we offer practical ways to practice daily gratitude that deepens belief.

• Gratitude completes the miracle in Luke 17
• Naaman’s pride, simple obedience, and renewal
• The scandal of simplicity in mercy and penance
• Healing “on the way” and obedience before evidence
• Eucharist as thanksgiving and weekly gratitude practice
• St Paul’s joy in chains and unchained Word of God
• Daily examen and concrete habits of thankfulness
• Why nine didn’t return and the risk of forgetting the giver
• Faith and gratitude as inseparable dispositions

We explore how gratitude and faith form a living cycle that turns requests into worship and blessings into a life of return. Naaman, the healed Samaritan, and Paul in chains reveal why thanksgiving completes the miracle and matures trust.

• Naaman’s pride confronted by simple obedience
• Healing of the ten lepers and one returning
• Gratitude completing the miracle into salvation
• Faith, gratitude, and worship as a single movement
• Paul’s chains contrasted with an unchained word
• Eucharist as thanksgiving and a school of memory
• Practical call to return with thanks after answers
• Gratitude turning fear into trust and pain into purpose