This coming Sunday evening is the next Church Prayer Meeting; an opportunity for us to gather for a short while to pray for God’s grace upon us as we seek to represent him to a watching world. It’s an important aspect of our life together as a church.
To encourage your faith and to whet your appetite to join us to pray for our church and the proclamation of the gospel in our city, here are a few quotes for you to meditate on…
Wayne Grudem: “Prayer is personal communication from us to God.”
John Bunyan: “Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to the Word of God, for the good of the church, with submission in faith to the will of God.”
D.A Carson: “The Bible insists that we pray, urges us to pray, gives us examples of prayer. Something has gone wrong in our reasoning if our reasoning leads us away from prayer; something is amiss in our theology if our theology becomes a disincentive to pray.”
Graeme Goldsworthy: “Prayer is not trying to persuade God to do something he otherwise would not do. It is our being caught up in the purposes of God and the expression of this privilege as his dear children who know him as Father…Prayer is not the bending of God’s will to ours, but his conforming our will to his…Prayer is a truly human response to divine revelation and action.”
R.C Sproul: “The Scriptures teach both the sovereign foreordination of God and the efficacy of prayer. The two are not inconsistent with one another, for God ordains the means as well as the ends for his divine purposes. Prayer is a means God uses to bring about His sovereign will to pass.”
Donald Whitney: “When our awareness of the greatness of God and the gospel is dim, our prayer lives will be small. The less we think of the nature and character of God, and the less we think of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross, the less we want to pray. But, when I think of what Christ has saved me from, when I recall the shame he endured so willingly for my sake, when I remember all that salvation means, prayer is not hard!”
Sunday 19th October 2008 @ Peter & June’s house. Kick-off 7pm!