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Prayer Is Not A Lottery

November 5, 2011 by Fritz

“Prayer is not a lottery that we have a chance in a million of winning. Prayer is a response to a promise, and God pledges His nature that He will hear and answer our prayers. This is a glorious inspiration to pray.”

— JUDSON CORNWALL. Praying The Scriptures – Rev. (p. 77). Kindle Edition.

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5 Steps To Asertain God’s Will

November 4, 2011 by Fritz

Determining God’s will can be elusive. We are often required to decide matters, some serious, with neither a clear knowledge of essential facts nor a full understanding of possible consequences.

George Mueller 1805-1898

George Muller, a man of prayer and faith, listed the process he used:

  1. “I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter…Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it may be…
  2. I [then] seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God…If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
  3. Next I take into account providential circumstances. These often plainly indicate God’s Will in connection with His Word and Spirit.”
  4. I ask God in prayer to reveal His will to me aright.
  5. if my mind is thus at peace…I proceed accordingly”

    6. I have found this method always effective”

— George Mueller, 1805-1898,
Answers to Prayer from George Muller’s Naritives

— fritz

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Off The Hook

November 3, 2011 by Fritz

Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years. Once again he prayed, and the sky poured out its rain and the earth produced its crops. — James 5:17-18 (Good News Translation)

We want to think men and women of the Bible were somehow different, more holy or more powerful. It sort of lets us off the hook when we see their prayers answered and ours not. But it also robs us of expecting much when we pray.

The Bible says they were just like us with the same passions, feelings, struggles we have. Don’t see it as a hook to get off of, see it as an opportunity to grow and a privilege to appreciate.

God worked in their lives and he will work in ours if we grasp both this fact and faith in Christ.

Prayer:Thank you, Father, that as I stand in the righteousness that Jesus died to give I can pray like any other man or woman in the Bible and know you hear and answer. Amen.

— fritz

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