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There are a lot of ways to sin against God, but failing to pray is usually not mentioned, since there are so many other sins that get "first billing." What will it take to wake us to the potential of prayer? How can we grow in prayer?
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A Rarely Mentioned Sin
January 30, 2009
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you. 1 Samuel 12:23
Samuel was quite a pray-er, evidently. He is commended for it in Psalm 99.
Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the Lord and he answered them. (6)
There was a time when it became clear that God "had had it up to here" with King Saul, and that a change would have to be made. God was grieved, and so did Samuel - all night long. 1 Samuel 15:11
What might a night like that accomplish? C. H. Spurgeon reflects on Jacob wrestling with God.
“One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing. We have an example of it in the life of Jacob."
"A foretime the crafty shuffler, always bargaining and calculating, unlovely in almost every respect, yet one night in prayer turned the supplanter into a prevailing prince, and robed ‘him with celestial grandeur. From that night he lives on the sacred page as one of the nobility of heaven."
"Could not we, at least now and then, in these weary earthbound years, hedge about a single night for such enriching traffic with the skies? What, have we no sacred ambition? Are we deaf to the yearnings of Divine love? Yet, my brethren, for wealth and for science men will cheerfully quit their warm couches, and cannot we do it now and again for the love of God, and the good of souls?"
"Where is our zeal, our gratitude, our sincerity? I am ashamed while I thus upbraid both myself and you. May we often tarry at Jabbok, and cry with Jacob, as he grasped the angel -
‘With thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.’
"Surely, brethren, if we have given whole days to folly, we can afford a space for heavenly wisdom. Time was when we gave whole nights to chambering and wantonness, to dancing and the world's revelry; we did not tire then; we were chiding the sun that he rose so soon, and wishing the hours would lag awhile that we might delight in wilder merriment and perhaps deeper sin."
"Oh, wherefore, should we weary in heavenly employments? Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself.”
"We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution."
Samuel was quite a pray-er, evidently. He is commended for it in Psalm 99.
Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the Lord and he answered them. (6)
There was a time when it became clear that God "had had it up to here" with King Saul, and that a change would have to be made. God was grieved, and so did Samuel - all night long. 1 Samuel 15:11
What might a night like that accomplish? C. H. Spurgeon reflects on Jacob wrestling with God.
“One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing. We have an example of it in the life of Jacob."
"A foretime the crafty shuffler, always bargaining and calculating, unlovely in almost every respect, yet one night in prayer turned the supplanter into a prevailing prince, and robed ‘him with celestial grandeur. From that night he lives on the sacred page as one of the nobility of heaven."
"Could not we, at least now and then, in these weary earthbound years, hedge about a single night for such enriching traffic with the skies? What, have we no sacred ambition? Are we deaf to the yearnings of Divine love? Yet, my brethren, for wealth and for science men will cheerfully quit their warm couches, and cannot we do it now and again for the love of God, and the good of souls?"
"Where is our zeal, our gratitude, our sincerity? I am ashamed while I thus upbraid both myself and you. May we often tarry at Jabbok, and cry with Jacob, as he grasped the angel -
‘With thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.’
"Surely, brethren, if we have given whole days to folly, we can afford a space for heavenly wisdom. Time was when we gave whole nights to chambering and wantonness, to dancing and the world's revelry; we did not tire then; we were chiding the sun that he rose so soon, and wishing the hours would lag awhile that we might delight in wilder merriment and perhaps deeper sin."
"Oh, wherefore, should we weary in heavenly employments? Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself.”
"We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution."
