Steve Camp shares some great thoughts on prayer this week, on his blog, CAMPONTHIS. Here is a couple of excerpts from it; We have also seen in our day a plastination of the church. A series of techniques developed to “embalm” the church with artificial preservatives; rendering it only a colorful, lifeless cadaver—a church that had a name to be alive, but is now dead.
How do we guard against spiritual plastination? We must first begin by being a people of prayer. It is the most difficult and isolated of all spiritual disciplines; for we must go into the closet, shut the door, be alone with God, and on our knees in humility, be servants prostrate before the Lord. It is no small thing that the duty and calling of any pastor is “prayer and to the ministry of the Word” (Acts 6:4). It is a work of grace; it is heaven’s charge; it is the complete dependency upon God for all things. James was called after his death, because of the thick calluses that covered his knees due to the long hours he spent in prayer before the Lord Jesus. It is no coincidence that he penned these most familiar words, “the camel-kneed”“the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
Read the entire article HERE
Hi Bill . Thanks for the article.
ReplyDeleteI used to tell the kids in youth group.
When a friend moves far away and you don't see them for years. If you haven't called or writen them you find you've become strangers. However if you've kept in touch regularly, time can pass, and you always feel a closeness, a comfort, a real relationship to them. I think our relationship with the Lord is similar. Communication is essential! Thanks again for the article.
Also, the song " In the Garden" was my mom's favorite. We sang it at her funeral. It's mentioned in one of the comments.
There, now I've done it . I broke the rule requiring the commenter to not type as many words as the blogger!
Thom