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God has given us a powerful weapon - prayer. Thus we have the privilege of teaming up with him as He transforms the kingdom of this world into the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. An unbelievable and humbling (and strangely neglected) privilege!
Recent Entries
Theological SteakApril 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Suffering Saints
January 25, 2012
We get nervous thinking about it - suffering for the sake of Christ. How necessary is it, and what does it produce in us?
George Herbert on Prayer Meetings
January 21, 2012
Prayer Meetings are a thing of the past. Or so it seems. What has been lost? Maybe more than we realize.
When Fear Is Good
January 7, 2012
NO FEAR, we are told. And the point is well taken. But fear can be healthy, at least when it comes to eternal matters.
Happy, Happy, Happy
January 4, 2012
The declaration of independence holds up the pursuit of happiness as a right. Did you ever consider the reading the bible might be the one source that will never let you down?
Tumultous Times
February 12, 2009
Jonathan Edwards singled out prayer as an appropriate activity for tumultuous times. United prayer, he noted, "promotes the unity of scattered Christians and nurtures confidence among them."
Private prayer was fundamentally a matter of devotion, but public prayer was "a social action with religious and ecclesiastical implications."
Edwards was persuaded that praying Christians could exert a powerful influence upon the fortunes of the church and the world. In prayer, the most universal act of worship, divine favor is asked for by the Church, and at the same time the reality of the divine being is affirmed.
Boy, could we use that!
In the introduction to THE MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION, Andrew Murray talks about why he wrote THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER....
"Our Lord continually spoke of prayer as a means of obtaining what we desire, and how He seeks in every possible way to waken in us the confident expectation of an answer."
"I was led to see how prayer, in which a man could enter into the mind of God, could assert the royal power of a renewed will, and bring down to earth what without prayer would not have been given, is the highest proof of our having been made in the likeness of God's Son."
"We are found worthy of entering into fellowship with Him, not only in adoration and worship, but in having our will actually taken up into the rule of the world, and becoming the intelligent channel through which God can fulfill His eternal purpose.,,,the blessing of prayer is that you can ask and receive what you will: the highest exercise and the glory of prayer is that persevering importunity can prevail and obtain what God at first could not and would not give."
Private prayer was fundamentally a matter of devotion, but public prayer was "a social action with religious and ecclesiastical implications."
Edwards was persuaded that praying Christians could exert a powerful influence upon the fortunes of the church and the world. In prayer, the most universal act of worship, divine favor is asked for by the Church, and at the same time the reality of the divine being is affirmed.
Boy, could we use that!
In the introduction to THE MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION, Andrew Murray talks about why he wrote THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER....
"Our Lord continually spoke of prayer as a means of obtaining what we desire, and how He seeks in every possible way to waken in us the confident expectation of an answer."
"I was led to see how prayer, in which a man could enter into the mind of God, could assert the royal power of a renewed will, and bring down to earth what without prayer would not have been given, is the highest proof of our having been made in the likeness of God's Son."
"We are found worthy of entering into fellowship with Him, not only in adoration and worship, but in having our will actually taken up into the rule of the world, and becoming the intelligent channel through which God can fulfill His eternal purpose.,,,the blessing of prayer is that you can ask and receive what you will: the highest exercise and the glory of prayer is that persevering importunity can prevail and obtain what God at first could not and would not give."
