Episode 115 is the audio of a prayer written by Pete Greig and the 24-7 Prayer Movement (www.24-7prayer.com). #prayer #coronavirus
A pdf of the written prayer can be found here
A Prayer for Deliverance from the Coronavirus
Tag Archives: Prayer
The Prayer of An Aging Woman
This minisode features the reading of an anonymous prayer called the Prayer of An Aging Woman. The writer showed great insight and humor as she cried out to God for her needs in the later years of her life. This prayer could easily be offered by any of us as we ourselves get older.
This podcast can also be found in video form on the Restoring The Core channel on You Tube. A direct link to the video on You Tube can be found here.
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A Prayer for When You Are Waiting on the Lord
In this 27th minisode, a prayer is read which was composed by Christina Fox. It is a wonderful prayer for working through a time of waiting upon God
Christina Fox blogs at https://www.christinafox.com/
The text of the prayer can be found here.
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The Soldier’s Pocket Book
Episode 94 features an exploration of and readings from “The Soldier’s Pocket Book”, a small devotional book created for soldiers fighting in the American Civil War (1861-1865).
While originally written for soldiers in the mid-19th century United States, its contents on prayer, Bible, hymns and exhortations on living the Christian life would make a fine devotional (for soldier or non-soldier) in the early 21st century.
A link to this text on archive.org can be found here
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Some Reflections on the Inner Life in Christ
This blog post contains some recent reflections of mine on the inner life. (The audio of this post forms a minisode…with links below)
The time at which I’m posting this is at the end of one year with, of course, the dawn of a new year approaching. I’ve been reflecting at this time about how to deepen the inner life which we have with Christ. One person whose writings have been instrumental in my thinking about the inner life was Andrew Murray, a pastor and writer from the late 1800s and early 1900s. His caution to us is a good one although it might seem a bit counter-intuitive. He warned about substitutes for God. The very nature of idolatry is substituting a false god for the one real and true God. However, Murray’s words have us think in terms that, at first, might not seem idolatrous. In his book “The Inner Chamber and the Inner Life”, we read the following: “You are in danger of substituting prayer and Bible study for living fellowship with God….Your desire to pray humbly and earnestly and believingly may so occupy you that the light of His countenance and the joy of His love cannot enter you…the very Word of God may become a subsitute for God Himself.”
This is a good reminder to not let two means of God’s grace to us become ends in themselves. The Pharisees of the 1st century, written about so often in the Gospel accounts, had a formal theology which was closer to that of Christ’s than any other group of that time. Yet, Christ refers to them as sons of hell and their converts twice the sons of hell as those who converted them. (See Matthew 23:15) What was admirable on paper became abominable in the way it was practiced. As we look to deepen our inner life in Christ, at whatever time of year it is, or whatever season of life we live in, we need to be careful that, in our practice, time spent in prayer does not become more important than the One with whom we are spending time in prayer. We need to be careful to not allow Bible reading to simply become an item on our things to do list. We need to remind ourselves that the reading of the written Word of God should never be our end goal. The end goal must be encountering the living Word of God, Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, I want to stress the importance of prayer and the privilege we have of listening to or reading the Bible. We must not neglect them. We must never practice them as ends in themselves.
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