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the study of the
prayers of Scripture.
the center of our praying is far removed from the center of Paul’s praying, then even our very praying may serve as a wretched testimony to the remarkable success of the processes of paganization in
life and thought.
Paul prays for Christians he has never met personally.
Paul prays unceasingly.
The point to be emphasized here is that there are some things for which we should
not stop praying.
it will not do to set aside time today to ask God to sanctify us if we do not return to the request for six months or so.
Paul links prayers of thanksgiving to prayers of petition.
What God has mandated is his will; our
responsibility is to do
it.
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to
do
But in Paul’s world, to be a Christian, to confess Jesus as Lord, meant to adopt a worldview in which you are bound to please him in every way.
Christians bear fruit in every good work.
Christians grow in the knowledge of God
Martha was so sure her choices and her activism were right that she was rather indignant over Mary’s quiet pietism. Moreover,
Rather, the argument is a fortiori: if even a corrupt judge responds to persistence, how much more will the righteous God respond to persistence?
To fall back on the excuse that we feel too dry or the like is merely to admit that we do not exercise the kind of faith that perseveres.
Implicit in both of these parables is the assumption that God may not answer immediately, that it is part of his wisdom to wait, even to resist us, so that we may exercise our faith and pursue him with sincerity.
many of us do not want to pray because we
know
that disciplined, biblical prayer would force us to eliminate sin th...
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Paul’s prayer spells the death of entrenched mediocrity, of smug self-satisfaction, of contentment with our own excuses. Paul prays for what
excellent.
in this way. Paul simply assumes that unless your love is abounding more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, you will not be able to discern and approve what is best.
What you need is the extraordinary discernment that helps you to perceive how things differ, and then make the best possible choice.
Are you committed, in your use of
time, to what is best?
Are you
committed, in your reading habits, to what
b...
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Feelings of guilt will not by themselves help us to make the right choices;
they may
simply increase our stress and ...
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tangle. What he wants Christians to pray for, at every stage of their spiritual pilgrimage, is excellence, “what is best.”
What he is doing is praying for revival. For if true revival is a work
of God,
it
is the test of
mot...
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“There is no future in
frustration.”
the things I value are taken away, is my joy in the Lord undiminished? Or am I so tied to my dreams that the destruction of my dreams means I am destroyed as well? Paul’s
Something has gone wrong in our reasoning if our reasoning leads us away from prayer;
“freedom” to absolute power
desire,
God does not stand behind
