Samuel Chadwick- All religions pray. God and prayer are inseparable. Belief in God and belief in prayer are elemental and intuitive.
The ideas my be crude and cruel in primitive and pagan peoples, but they belong to the universal intuitions of the human race. (Google image, Girl praying God's way)
The teaching of the Old Testament is full of the subject of prayer. Everywhere there are commands and inducements to pray, and the great stories of deliverance and victory, experience and vision, are all examples of prevailing prayer.
In the Gospels, all the crises in the life of our Lord were linked with special seasons of prayer, and His teaching set forth wonderful assurances to those who pray.
He laid down the laws of prayer, though He never sought to explain its mystery. Prayer was not a problem to Him. The two parables He spoke about prayer are not very acceptable, however, to those who pray.
There is something alien to the spirit of prayer in likening God to a heartless judge (Luke 18:1-8) or a churlish friend (Luke 11:5-8). God is neither. The parables were not spoken as representative of God but to illustrate the reward of persistence.
The basis of prayer is sonship. Prayer is possible and reasonable because it is filial. It is natural for a child to ask something of its father, and it is reasonable for the father to listen to the request of his child.
"If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your
Father which is in heaven give good things to
them that ask Him" (see Matt. 7:7-11).
There are many problems about prayer, but they lie outside the fact and experience of prayer, and apart from praying there is no solution to them. Prayer is a fact of experience, and through all the ages the testimony of those who prayed has been that God hears and answers the prayer of His children.
The ideas my be crude and cruel in primitive and pagan peoples, but they belong to the universal intuitions of the human race. (Google image, Girl praying God's way)
The teaching of the Old Testament is full of the subject of prayer. Everywhere there are commands and inducements to pray, and the great stories of deliverance and victory, experience and vision, are all examples of prevailing prayer.
In the Gospels, all the crises in the life of our Lord were linked with special seasons of prayer, and His teaching set forth wonderful assurances to those who pray.
He laid down the laws of prayer, though He never sought to explain its mystery. Prayer was not a problem to Him. The two parables He spoke about prayer are not very acceptable, however, to those who pray.
There is something alien to the spirit of prayer in likening God to a heartless judge (Luke 18:1-8) or a churlish friend (Luke 11:5-8). God is neither. The parables were not spoken as representative of God but to illustrate the reward of persistence.
The basis of prayer is sonship. Prayer is possible and reasonable because it is filial. It is natural for a child to ask something of its father, and it is reasonable for the father to listen to the request of his child.
"If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your
Father which is in heaven give good things to
them that ask Him" (see Matt. 7:7-11).
There are many problems about prayer, but they lie outside the fact and experience of prayer, and apart from praying there is no solution to them. Prayer is a fact of experience, and through all the ages the testimony of those who prayed has been that God hears and answers the prayer of His children.
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THE PATH OF PRAYER
Samuel Chadwick- "There are many problems about prayer, but they lie outside the fact and experience of prayer, and apart from praying there is no solution to them. Prayer is a fact of experience, and through all the ages the testimony of those who prayed has been that God hears and answers the prayer of His children."
#2 What God Thinks About Prayer
What is Sanctified Living?
12th-Saturday's post by Jean Oathout
#3 The Way God Answers Prayer
15th- Tuesday's post by Samuel Chadwick
#4 Learning to Pray
17th- Thursday's post by Samuel Chadwick
Jean's blog
Let's pray-
Father, as there is a universal intuition for us to pray, and we see the teaching of the Old Testament is full of various commands and inducements to pray, we find ourselves in need of Your help to experience deliverance and victory in our praying, too.
Because You do listen to Your children's prayers, we expect that You'll enable us to pray effectively. May we have faith that it's in our best interest to look to You in our praying.
We ask that You'll enable us to know for sure, that You love to hear us pray, but also, that we're doing what is best for our personal situations; to involve You in them.
In Jesus' name we do pray, Amen.
Because You do listen to Your children's prayers, we expect that You'll enable us to pray effectively. May we have faith that it's in our best interest to look to You in our praying.
We ask that You'll enable us to know for sure, that You love to hear us pray, but also, that we're doing what is best for our personal situations; to involve You in them.
In Jesus' name we do pray, Amen.
Wesley L. Duewel: "God has created us in His image to be godlike in personality and in character. God has created us to have fellowship with the triune Jehovah.
God has ordained us from all creation to have a special relationship to God the Son. We are created spiritually to fellowship with the Son."
God has ordained us from all creation to have a special relationship to God the Son. We are created spiritually to fellowship with the Son."
Today's Bible verses-
John 14:1-3, (ESV).“Let not your hearts be troubled.
Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s
house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I
go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also”
Is. 35:3, 4) (NKJV) "Strengthen the weak hands, and
make firm the feeble knees. (v. 4) Say to those who are
fearful-hearted, 'Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your
God will come with vengeance, with the recompense
of God: He will come and save you.' "
John 14:1-3, (ESV).“Let not your hearts be troubled.
Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s
house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I
go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also”
Is. 35:3, 4) (NKJV) "Strengthen the weak hands, and
make firm the feeble knees. (v. 4) Say to those who are
fearful-hearted, 'Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your
God will come with vengeance, with the recompense
of God: He will come and save you.' "
Today's quotes-
~ Steve Elliot- "God is totally complete and therefore has true liberty in every circumstance. If we want or need nothing necessary to completeness, we are now free to love our enemies and live beyond the transaction—the 'eye for eye' code of personal justice. Our completeness is internal, not external—not derived from our circumstances and not swayed by what others do or fail to do."
(p. 49 of THRIVING THROUGH THE NIGHT, a booklet from Grassfire, a division of Grassroots Action, Inc.)
~ Steven Smith- "The Father seeks fervent worshippers who bring glory to Him. To worship him, He requires you to align your will and your thinking to His. He is not in the business of aligning His will and thinking to yours. He is God and you are not.
To be filled with God, you must come God's way. When your Father in heaven has determined that your heart is aligned and ready, He will descend upon you in power.
He delights to come to you—on his terms."
(p. 81 of SPIRIT WALK, The Extraordinary Power of Acts for Ordinary People).
~ Steve Elliot- "God is totally complete and therefore has true liberty in every circumstance. If we want or need nothing necessary to completeness, we are now free to love our enemies and live beyond the transaction—the 'eye for eye' code of personal justice. Our completeness is internal, not external—not derived from our circumstances and not swayed by what others do or fail to do."
(p. 49 of THRIVING THROUGH THE NIGHT, a booklet from Grassfire, a division of Grassroots Action, Inc.)
~ Steven Smith- "The Father seeks fervent worshippers who bring glory to Him. To worship him, He requires you to align your will and your thinking to His. He is not in the business of aligning His will and thinking to yours. He is God and you are not.
To be filled with God, you must come God's way. When your Father in heaven has determined that your heart is aligned and ready, He will descend upon you in power.
He delights to come to you—on his terms."
(p. 81 of SPIRIT WALK, The Extraordinary Power of Acts for Ordinary People).
Today's sermon:
Upcoming posts-
#2 What God Thinks About Prayer
10th- Thursday's post by Samuel Chadwick
12th-Saturday's post by Jean Oathout
#3 The Way God Answers Prayer
15th- Tuesday's post by Samuel Chadwick
#4 Learning to Pray
17th- Thursday's post by Samuel Chadwick
Helpful ways the Lord helped me in my marriage.
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