Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Lord, lay upon my heart the things that are upon yours”.
Pray what's important to God and he will take care of the rest
When you pray, say, “Father, hallowed be Your name. Your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.” (v2-4)
God is in control. He answers over and above what we ask. We live at peace if we embrace the theology of the God of the “how much more”!
God knows what we need and he offers much more. Our faith must believe and trust in his generosity
Prayer is not about you – it is all about God! It is not primarily about how big, how deep, how long, or even how eloquent your prayer is. It is all about who God is! “You have missed understanding the heart of God. If so, even the Lord’s Prayer will be meaningless to you. You people think of God as a reluctant God who is most difficult to please. You think of God as One who is miserly or severe. But My Father is not like that at all! “He is the God of the ‘how much more’s!” DO NOT miss the most important thing. Prayer is not about you – prayer is all about God! It is not about how deep or how
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Prayer is not about asking but a worship of God. He knows your needs
prayer is entirely about who God is. Prayer and theology must
be integrated because prayer is entirely contingent upon who God is! When we see this, our faith is deepened, our prayers are empowered, and our lives are transformed. The Lord’s Prayer makes sense only because when we pray, “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your Kingdom come,” we know that this is the God who commands His blessings in Christ to those who seek Him. For to those who ask, it shall most readily be given. By those who seek, He shall most readily be found. And to those who knock, it shall most readily be opened. Herein lie theology and prayer – integrated and
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Prayer is theologically significant not for what it can do for us, but for what it can bring us back to! Prayer brings us back to a dependence on God.
Prayer is more worship than request. He knows your needs
PRAYER IS theologically significant – not for what it can do for us, but more for what it can bring us back to! Prayer brings us home to God.
Prayer is abojt Gid, nit requests
“Lord, I have nothing!” This holy desperation taps into the eternal resources of the God who has everything!
Desperately nithing ours versus God's abundance
Prayer is, therefore, not using God, but finding God.
defines our worship, deepens our life and develops our faith. Prayer is vital to our true fulfilment as human beings. We are created to find our deepest fulfilment in God. For we are first and foremost spiritual beings who need God. It is not God who needs our prayers, but we who need God – not as the cosmic answer to our questions nor the celestial solution to our problems, but for who He is and for who we are when we are in Him. Jesus understood this; that is why prayer was pre-eminent in His life and ministry. RATHER THAN merely satisfying our spiritual appetite, prayer actually enlarges
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“How much more shall the heavenly Father give His Holy Spirit?” He
teaches us that the chief and the best of these gifts is the Holy Spirit, or rather, that in this gift, all others are comprised.
Everyone has a theology, whether they know it or not, and whether they can articulate it or not.
Each one is different. Accept it
God uses the pains of life as a blessing in disguise and a tutor for our growth. So we should not dismiss every pain and problem as outside God’s will for us.
Pain as a tutor to understand his will
