freedom to discover and serve Jesus
Upside down faithwalking in PRAYER
One of my wonderful youth leaders came by today and met with me for a bit. During that time he shared with me from an old book written by a man by the name of O.Hallesby and it was about the attitude of prayer. It was quite amazing!!! Here it is for those of you who enjoy talking with God...comment if you like...
"Prayer consists of simply telling God day by day in what ways we feel that we are helpless. We are moved to pray every time the Spirit of God, which is the spirit of prayer, emphasizes anew to us our helplessness, and we realize how impotent we are by nature to believe, to love, to serve, to sacrifice, to suffer, to read the Bible, to pray and to struggle against our sinful desires.
It often happens that we slip out of this blessed attitude of helplessness before God. Our former self-conceit and self-sufficiency reassert themselves. The result is that we fail again to grasp the meaning of helplessness. Once more it fills us with anxiety and perplexity. Everything becomes snarled again. We are not certain of the forgiveness of sins. The peace of God disappears from our lives. Worldliness and lack of spiritual interest begin to choke our spiritual lives. Sin gains victory in our daily lives and an unwilling spirit works its way into the service we render to God.
This will continue until God canmake us humble and contrite of heart and we again become reconciled to being helpless sinners, who can do nothing but this one thing: to permit the infinite God to have mercy on us, to love us and care for us. Then our helplessness re-establishes us in our right relationship both to God and to each other. Above all it restores us to the right attitude in PRAYER"
Revelation 3:20 suggests that all we need do is open the door
Isaiah 66:2 lets us see the type of person God is looking for
Peace to you
"Prayer consists of simply telling God day by day in what ways we feel that we are helpless. We are moved to pray every time the Spirit of God, which is the spirit of prayer, emphasizes anew to us our helplessness, and we realize how impotent we are by nature to believe, to love, to serve, to sacrifice, to suffer, to read the Bible, to pray and to struggle against our sinful desires.
It often happens that we slip out of this blessed attitude of helplessness before God. Our former self-conceit and self-sufficiency reassert themselves. The result is that we fail again to grasp the meaning of helplessness. Once more it fills us with anxiety and perplexity. Everything becomes snarled again. We are not certain of the forgiveness of sins. The peace of God disappears from our lives. Worldliness and lack of spiritual interest begin to choke our spiritual lives. Sin gains victory in our daily lives and an unwilling spirit works its way into the service we render to God.
This will continue until God canmake us humble and contrite of heart and we again become reconciled to being helpless sinners, who can do nothing but this one thing: to permit the infinite God to have mercy on us, to love us and care for us. Then our helplessness re-establishes us in our right relationship both to God and to each other. Above all it restores us to the right attitude in PRAYER"
Revelation 3:20 suggests that all we need do is open the door
Isaiah 66:2 lets us see the type of person God is looking for
Peace to you
Comment
About
Photos
Videos
-
Hip Hop Pete
Added by Pete Olsen
-
Peace, December 6th
Added by Janelle Quinn
-
I want to do this
Added by Pete Olsen
© 2009 Created by Pete Olsen on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
You need to be a member of WMB Youth Event Site to add comments!
Join this Ning Network