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Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. Ephesians 6:19
Recent Entries
God? Who Needs Him?May 31, 2013
Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
September 12, 2012
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
August 18, 2012
The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
July 23, 2012
To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
April 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?
Nothing Is Impossible With God
October 5, 2008
We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculating manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, the glorious. We seldom pray with real confidence for any good to the realization of which we cannot imagine a way. And yet we suppose ourselves to believe in an infinite Father. Anonymous, Edinburgh, 1910
The following story is drawn from the Amy Charmichael biography by Frank Houghton.
“Is it going to be too expensive?” Amy was asked. She hesitated to answer, but on the next morning she was directed to the word in Daily Light for June 4th, “The house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.”
This word, she says, “lifted the matter of cost to the heavenlies – where the air is clear.” By “magnifical”, she explains, she meant “perfect for its purpose of glorifying the God of love, so that men and women will be drawn to Him. He is also the God of beauty, and it follows that ugliness jars. He has no pleasure in it – nor in dirt.”
They calculated that a place after this pattern, simple, clean and beautiful, but with no extravagances anywhere, would cost 10,000 pounds, a sum so huge that Amy asked every member of the Fellowship to pray over it for some weeks. Then they met on August 15th for an unhurried time of prayer, and the entry of the log-book is significant: “Asked for, and received according to 1 John 5:14,15…..
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
…….received 10,000 pounds for the Parama Suha Salai (Place of heavenly healing) – to which all signed their names.
The first gift of 1000 pounds came in a remarkable way. The donor had been praying, and said that “the impression to do something besides pray deepened until the Heavenly Father just told me what He wanted, bit by bit, and that He wanted it without delay, and showed how, for at first it seemed impossible – I didn’t see how the sum could be got.
From the first whisper from him there was no doubt as to the sum, and that it was all to be sent at once. That was absolutely clear. But oh, the wonder of it all – that He should have let one of the least of His children so realize His presence and His wish and guidance, seems almost too much joy.”
Some months after this 1000 pounds had arrived, they heard of another piece to the puzzle. A nurse back in England was praying the same prayer as the one who gave the gift. In her prayer she told the Lord that “she wanted to send Amy 1000 pounds as a birthday present, but she could not do it. Would He send it for her?”
How marvelous is the mystery of prayer? And how wonderful!
The following story is drawn from the Amy Charmichael biography by Frank Houghton.
“Is it going to be too expensive?” Amy was asked. She hesitated to answer, but on the next morning she was directed to the word in Daily Light for June 4th, “The house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.”
This word, she says, “lifted the matter of cost to the heavenlies – where the air is clear.” By “magnifical”, she explains, she meant “perfect for its purpose of glorifying the God of love, so that men and women will be drawn to Him. He is also the God of beauty, and it follows that ugliness jars. He has no pleasure in it – nor in dirt.”
They calculated that a place after this pattern, simple, clean and beautiful, but with no extravagances anywhere, would cost 10,000 pounds, a sum so huge that Amy asked every member of the Fellowship to pray over it for some weeks. Then they met on August 15th for an unhurried time of prayer, and the entry of the log-book is significant: “Asked for, and received according to 1 John 5:14,15…..
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
…….received 10,000 pounds for the Parama Suha Salai (Place of heavenly healing) – to which all signed their names.
The first gift of 1000 pounds came in a remarkable way. The donor had been praying, and said that “the impression to do something besides pray deepened until the Heavenly Father just told me what He wanted, bit by bit, and that He wanted it without delay, and showed how, for at first it seemed impossible – I didn’t see how the sum could be got.
From the first whisper from him there was no doubt as to the sum, and that it was all to be sent at once. That was absolutely clear. But oh, the wonder of it all – that He should have let one of the least of His children so realize His presence and His wish and guidance, seems almost too much joy.”
Some months after this 1000 pounds had arrived, they heard of another piece to the puzzle. A nurse back in England was praying the same prayer as the one who gave the gift. In her prayer she told the Lord that “she wanted to send Amy 1000 pounds as a birthday present, but she could not do it. Would He send it for her?”
How marvelous is the mystery of prayer? And how wonderful!
