On My Knees Quotes

“As Sanders notes: Biblical characters prayed boldly because they believed their prayers could change things – even God’s mind. They understood that they were working with God to determine the future.7”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“All who are familiar with satnav technology are well aware that there is usually an optimal route for reaching a particular destination. If we choose to ignore the directions and deviate from the ideal route, it doesn’t switch itself off in disgust but recalculates the journey to find the new route, starting from our current location. In the same way, God doesn’t write us off or force us out of the driving seat when, ignoring him, we steer our own way through life. He takes us on from where we are.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“And God’s ultimate purpose for us, which is also unchanging, is that his divine nature might be recreated within us. To this end he desires to draw us ever closer to his Son. For those who are already Christians we call this movement “sanctification”; for non-Christians we may call it “mission”. But the direction is the same, ever Christward.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“An unmoving watch may have its place in a timeless universe, but it is all but useless in a world where the seconds tick by. In the same way, we might rightly question what comfort there would be in journeying through life with a God who is continually unable or unwilling to respond, in real time, to the desires expressed in our prayers. God in his power could have chosen to relate to us in such a way, but his love has embraced a different path.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“But, as Polkinghorne states: God’s perfection is not the static holding of the topmost metaphysical peak, but it lies in the total love of his unfailing action. It is the perfection that belongs to life and not to lifelessness.4”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“What all these incidents make clear is that biblical history is not a straight line but is rather a meandering route, because God’s actions are in part responsive to us. What is also clear, wonderfully, is that his purposes will ultimately be fulfilled, just as surely as the rivers reach the sea.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“Though co-eternal with the Father, Jesus fully entered into the human experience of time. And we see that his divine knowledge of the past and the future did not invalidate his experience of the present.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer