The nature of prayer
I just had an “ah ha” moment. A moment of clarity. A literal enlightenment.
I’ve been listening to the Mosaic pod casts and once again God is speaking to me through McManus. He was talking about the nature of prayer. Here’s a quote:
“See, I think a lot of times prayer is just saying back to God what God is saying to you. So that he can He will be honored in your life. So that your faith can be built by knowing that it was Him who instigated it all.”
It’s a matter of seeking God’s voice, not just fulfilling a checklist. It’s honoring God in humility, not legalism.
It’s because I want to, not because I have to. It’s motivated by love not requirement.
Good stuff ..
I’ve been listening to the Mosaic pod casts and once again God is speaking to me through McManus. He was talking about the nature of prayer. Here’s a quote:
“See, I think a lot of times prayer is just saying back to God what God is saying to you. So that he can He will be honored in your life. So that your faith can be built by knowing that it was Him who instigated it all.”
It’s a matter of seeking God’s voice, not just fulfilling a checklist. It’s honoring God in humility, not legalism.
It’s because I want to, not because I have to. It’s motivated by love not requirement.
Good stuff ..
posted by Wealthedge at 4:22 PM
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Today's reading from Oswald Chambers...
WHAT'S THE GOOD OF PRAYER?
"Lord, teach us to pray." Luke 11:1
It is not part of the life of a natural man to pray. We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life if he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not by food, but by prayer. When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
"Ask and ye shall receive." We grouse before God, we are apologetic or apathetic, but we ask very few things. Yet what a splendid audacity a childlike child has! Our Lord says - "Except ye become as little children." Ask, and God will do. Give Jesus Christ a chance, give Him elbow room, and no man will ever do this unless he is at his wits' end. When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get into touch with Reality. Be yourself before God and present your problems, the things you know you have come to your wits' end over. As long as you are self-sufficient, you do not need to ask God for anything.
It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.
I love that prayer is an opportunity to grow closer to God. There have been times when I have really, deep down in my soul, realized that, and in my crying out to Him, I've received such clarity. I can't fake, though I've tried. It's like I have to be almost barren with need, and that's when the connection is made.
Good stuff Susie .. I like the idea that we have a part in the power of prayer, that it isn't God waving a magic wand, and that it's up to us to use the change and the power that God has wrought.
Thanks!
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