Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Times of Old
We wonder why our churches aren’t experiencing revivals and God’s power like times of old but the answer is so clear. Prayer is power, we little power because we pray so little. What is wrong with us that we think because we are a “different” generation that we should do things as they were done before? Cottage prayer meeting and prayer partners are things of the past, hardly ever heard of, but look how God used that to move the church and transform it into the image of His Son. There used to be prayer meetings before every church service where the members would come and pray that God would speak to them and God answered. Yet today we can’t even find a man to volunteer to pray and close the service. God help us as we’ve drifted so far from the simple, tried and true ways of knowing God! I’m not harping on everyone around me, I’m “preaching” at myself. I propose we get back to the way things were and they way need to be. I want to see God change me and those around me, and conform us into the image of Christ. Let’s get back to the methods that God blessed, praying and seeing His power.
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Pray is a result of a heart relationship. We do not pray because we are not on speaking terms with God. We have nothing in common with Him and nothing to talk to him about. It is not that we do not pray often enough or earnestly enough. It is that we do not have such a lack of relationship with our Father that it does not occur to us to talk to Him. Is a lack of prayer then, the problem, or is something deeper, or perhaps simpler?
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