Prayer – Chapter 5
4 Things from Chapter 5
I know I know I said I wouldn’t do this sort of thing BUT chapter 5 is loaded!
So here it goes. I’ll TRY to keep it short LOL!
1. An Excellent Explanation pg 58
In a telling comment Jesus also said, “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” He could not mean that prayer in unnecessary for his own life beliedthat. He could only mean that we need not strive to convince God to care; the Father cares more than we can know.
2.A fresh perspective for me personally:
We don not pray to tell God what He does not know, nor to remind Him of things He has forgotten. He already cares for the things we pray about…..He has simply been waiting for us to care about them with Him. When we pray, we stand by God and look with Him toward those people and problems.
3. An ancient definition rediscovered:
Prayer is keeping company with God.
4. A disagreement:
Job who gave the most irreverent speeches in the Bible , emerges as a hero in the endthe spiritual leader of his censured friends.
Ahem..here’s where I get on my little soap box for the rest of the post!
Job by no means in mind is a hero. I wouldn’t call him a hero by any means.I challenge you to re-read Job chapters 38-41. God is ticked at Job for numerous things..Such as pride arrogance and putting himself (Job) on a god-like pedestal. If yoiu disagree with me. look at Genesis 2 and three and re-read the account of the fall of man. NO ONE is innocent and Job claims. He is not blameless. Don’t get me wrong Job handles himself well in the first few chapters of Job but as the book goes on you see a man emerge who is different that he who was so grieved at the beginning. I guess in my mind a hero is someone who would have stood up and said God has a reason and I will trust him..With oiut “tooting his own horn” so to speak.
Job falls down before God and admits he was wrong in attitude and understanding. God doesn’t give Job his things back and more because he was a good and righteous man BUT because he Prayed for his friends. who got in “Bigger” trouble with God.
My walk Monday
REVISITING MINISTRY IN MARRIAGE AND MOTHERHOOD!
Life at it’s best :Being yourself
When to be yourself
~When it involves your testimony!
Galatians 1.10
If idon’t seek to please God I am going to give up serving the Lord
Jeremiah 17.5-8
to get to choose to be a growing forest or a desert
2 Corinthians 10.7a and 12
would God be pleased with my motives and actions
and
do I live by God’s expectations or my own
AND
are you trying to meet other peoples expectations?
When Not to be yourself
~ When it involves your tongue
Ephesians 4.29
let no corrupt word come out of your mouth
James 3.5-10
out of the same mouth comes blessings and curses
~ when it involves our temperament
Ephesians 4.32
BE KIND one to another and Jesus Christ
