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Pete Greig
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February 20 - February 21, 2025
Our English word prayer derives from the Latin precarius. We pray because life is precarious.
Prayer is nothing at all unless it is a matter of vast and all-consuming importance for each one of us.
The Holy Spirit filled the place before he filled the people.
After decades of night-and-day prayer, I have come to believe that 99 percent of it is just showing up: making the effort to become consciously present to the God who is constantly present to us.
Wherever you find your chair, try to visit it daily. Let it become your thin place, a sacred space that helps you walk and talk with God through the many twists and turns of life.
THE BEST BIT of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.
God wants to spend time with us even more than we want to spend time with him.
Prayer is “simple enough to be memorised by small children and yet profound enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer.”[6]
God’s presence is freely available to us all at any time, in any place, through Jesus.[7]
God invites you to pray simply, directly, and truthfully in the full and wonderful weirdness of the way he’s made you.
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best.
You cannot grow in prayer without some measure of effort and discomfort, self-discipline and self-denial.
It’s a privilege to be able to discuss my concerns with the living God.
true prayer is not so much something we say, nor is it something we do: It is something we become.
But I am learning to understand that I may never fully understand.
When you pray about the small things in life, you get to live with greater gratitude.
Miracle is just a word we use for the things the Powers have deluded us into thinking that God is unable to do.
To pray in the name of Jesus means asking for things that are consistent with his character and aligned with his purpose.
Praying in the name of Jesus means wanting what God wants, aligning our wills with his will, our words with his Word, and our personal preferences with his eternal and universal purposes. It also speaks of family privilege. To ask in the name of Jesus is to approach the Father in the company of his own dear Son.
Faith is God’s gift to us; faithfulness is ours to him.
Jesus truly understands. He’s gone ahead and shown how to endure disorientation and pain.
PRAYER IS A LIVING conversation with a loving God,
Listening means yielding willingly to whatever God tells us to do.
The Spirit helps us in our weakness.
