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The Psalmist asks, "When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? Psalm 11:3 Well, for one, they can pray to a prayer-hearing God. And who knows....
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Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar.
Let them say, "Spare your people, O LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?' " Then the LORD will be jealous for his land and take pity on his people. Joel 2:15-17
Jonathan Edwards on prayer....
Prayer is but a sensible acknowledgment of our dependence on him to his glory. As he has made all things for his own glory, so he will be glorified and acknowledged by his creatures.
And it is fit that he should require this of those who would be the subjects of his mercy, that we, when we desire to receive any mercy from him, should humbly supplicate the Divine Being.
For the bestowment of that mercy, is but a suitable acknowledgment of our dependence on the power and mercy of God for that which we need, and but a suitable honor paid to the great Author and Fountain of all good.
With respect to ourselves, God requires prayer of us in order to the bestowment of mercy, because it tends to prepare us for its reception.
Fervent prayer many ways tends to prepare the heart. Hereby is excited a sense of our need, and of the value of the mercy which we seek, and at the same times earnest desires for it, whereby the mind is more prepared to prize it, to rejoice in it when bestowed, and to be thankful for it.
Prayer, with suitable confession, may excite a sense of our unworthiness of the mercy we seek. And the placing of ourselves in the immediate presence of God, may make us sensible of his majesty, and in a sense fit to receive mercy of him.
Our prayer to God may excite in us a suitable sense and consideration of our dependence on God for the mercy we ask, and a suitable exercise of faith in God’s sufficiency, that so we may be prepared to glorify his name when the mercy is received.
Jonathan Edwards THE MOST HIGH A PRAYER-HEARING GOD
"Jonathan Edwards singled out prayer as an appropriate activity for tumultous times. 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."
"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."
WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS Volume 5 S. Stein
Wringing our hands will accomplish nothing. Let's at least gather together as God's people and wring them in the presence of an Almighty and sovereign God who is listening, who relents, who delights to show mercy, and for whom nothing is impossible.
Let them say, "Spare your people, O LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?' " Then the LORD will be jealous for his land and take pity on his people. Joel 2:15-17
Jonathan Edwards on prayer....
Prayer is but a sensible acknowledgment of our dependence on him to his glory. As he has made all things for his own glory, so he will be glorified and acknowledged by his creatures.
And it is fit that he should require this of those who would be the subjects of his mercy, that we, when we desire to receive any mercy from him, should humbly supplicate the Divine Being.
For the bestowment of that mercy, is but a suitable acknowledgment of our dependence on the power and mercy of God for that which we need, and but a suitable honor paid to the great Author and Fountain of all good.
With respect to ourselves, God requires prayer of us in order to the bestowment of mercy, because it tends to prepare us for its reception.
Fervent prayer many ways tends to prepare the heart. Hereby is excited a sense of our need, and of the value of the mercy which we seek, and at the same times earnest desires for it, whereby the mind is more prepared to prize it, to rejoice in it when bestowed, and to be thankful for it.
Prayer, with suitable confession, may excite a sense of our unworthiness of the mercy we seek. And the placing of ourselves in the immediate presence of God, may make us sensible of his majesty, and in a sense fit to receive mercy of him.
Our prayer to God may excite in us a suitable sense and consideration of our dependence on God for the mercy we ask, and a suitable exercise of faith in God’s sufficiency, that so we may be prepared to glorify his name when the mercy is received.
Jonathan Edwards THE MOST HIGH A PRAYER-HEARING GOD
"Jonathan Edwards singled out prayer as an appropriate activity for tumultous times. 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."
"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."
WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS Volume 5 S. Stein
Wringing our hands will accomplish nothing. Let's at least gather together as God's people and wring them in the presence of an Almighty and sovereign God who is listening, who relents, who delights to show mercy, and for whom nothing is impossible.
