Prayer (178)
  1. Prayer dares to call the impossible into reality. It trusts the One who can do all things to do impossible things. It rests its hope on God’s power and not man’s agency.
  2. Even as children of God, we have down days. That’s just a fact of being sinful and living in an evil world.
  3. When you don’t know whom to thank, you start thanking yourself. Praise turns inward. This is a double bondage. When you have only yourself to thank, you end up having only yourself to depend upon.
  4. Saying the words of the prayer together meant that if my voice became too weak or shaky, other voices would be around to support and continue the message.
  5. Your prayers are not what make you acceptable in his sight. You have already been made acceptable through the blood of Christ.
  6. These words not only rescue and defend; they also attack.
  7. It is one thing to pray against death’s slow and aggressive assault on God’s creation. It is another to trust in the one who has conquered the grave.
  8. When we are hurt, we cry out to God. But sometimes when the hurt gets really intense, our lament turns to complaint. Not only is this normal, but almost every lament in scripture contains a complaint.
  9. We already know how the war will conclude. Jesus wins.
  10. God doesn’t permit me to write you off regardless of who you are or what you may have done. Nor does he allow you to dismiss me because I might not fit your image of a vessel of God’s mercy.
  11. We all live with the knowledge of good and evil, but lack the power or ability to affect either one. We can judge good and evil but we cannot control them.
  12. So let’s go to dark Gethsemane. For there we see that even in his greatest moment of weakness, Jesus is our only source of strength. He drinks the cup of wrath so we can drink the cup of grace.
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