Praying the Word of Grace Quotes

“In short, while I certainly don’t have all the answers, when I look at the brokenness of this world: it is not God’s fingerprints that I find on the smoking gun at the scene of the crime.

You know where I do see His fingerprints?

On the torturous crossbeam that Jesus held onto tightly, as He carried my cross through the streets and up to Calvary. I see them on the nails he gripped while hanging there to die my death for me. I see His fingerprints all over the places where Christ stood in my place, and where he took me by the hand to lead me into the eternal glory of new life in Him.

I find the fingerprints everywhere that my Father, in His relentless love, searched for me in the night of my own darkness. Or I find them wrapped around me, in the places my Father held me in His loving embrace, and on His best robes He threw around me to clothe me, after I came home exhausted from a long journey of running away (Luke 15:20).

I see the hand of God where the Holy Spirit worked His wonders and miracles, and cast out the darkness with His invincible light. Surely this was the “finger of God” (Luke 11:20).

I see God in the hands of the nurses and doctors who cared for our son, and the friends and family who reached out with compassion and grace to lift us when we were down.

Everywhere I find pure light, life and love: those are the places I find God in the story.”
― Jonah Priour, Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer

“I would even submit that true gratitude and true humility before God are found in fully receiving and enjoying the gifts He has so generously given to us in Christ.

However one defines grace, this much is clear. Grace comes as a free gift from God. And what do you do with a gift?

You open it. You enjoy it. This is our gratitude. This is the best thing to do with grace!”
― Jonah Priour, Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer

“As I have let God into the dark spaces, He has come in and filled them with His healing light. In this, I have found God to be dependable, reliable, and trustworthy. I have found Him to be miraculous.

He clothed Himself with me … and then He clothed me with Himself.”
― Jonah Priour, Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer

“It begins with us letting Him into the darkness. It completes with Him shining His light.

Somehow, it’s both. Fully. The honesty of earth meets the truth of Heaven. The cross and the resurrection. This is the completion.

And I have found the order to be key: earth is the question. Heaven is the answer.”
― Jonah Priour, Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer

“This hope might have appeared to me like a cloud the size of a man’s fist in a vast open sky, in the middle of the desert, in the middle of a drought …
But there was rain in that cloud.”
― Jonah Priour, Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer

“Eternal bonds are formed on the battlefield.”
― Jonah Priour, Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer