LORD – did you know the word lord comes from Old English and means “bread keeper”?
This awareness of who God is and what He holds – my daily bread – should begin to produce a humble heart in me.
Use these questions as your prayer today. Write them where you will see them frequently or make a mark on your hand so that you are reminded to meditate on them today.
Do I remember to whom I am speaking? He is God; I am not.
Do I believe that He actually listens to me?
Do I believe that He acutally loves me and wants to answer me?
Do I believe that He has the power to do the things that I ask?
4 responses so far ↓
completefaith // May 2, 2008 at 9:06 am |
Do I remember to whom I am speaking? He is God; I am not.
Do I believe that He actually listens to me?
Do I believe that He actually loves me and wants to answer me?
Do I believe that He has the power to do the things that I ask?
I don’t know if I am going to answer these questions here or not. It doesn’t really matter anyway as they are all very personal questions that we should each answer on our own, but I really want to rant a while…
I have heard it said that when we pray we pray from the heaven seat. I take that to mean not from Gods thrown, but perhaps seated next to God, where we have his ear. His full attention is turned on us when we pray.
First off I suspect that God would not provide us we such a place unless he wants to hear, very clearly, what we have to say. God does not provide the prayer seat so that we can sit at his side and hold our tongue. We are not his show piece, nor are we called to be shy or insecure. His desire is to hear our words clearly, and strongly.
Now thinking about it, we don’t normally speak “strongly” unless we have confidence in our words. This is starting to ring a bell… Something about Faith and a Mustard Seed.
I am not sure why but this post is really making me think of the whole Lakeland FL thing. I want so badly to step into that flow, catch the fire and carry it back to South Dakota and let it loose here that I can almost taste it. I feel like I am standing a couple feet away, but there is a glass wall between myself and my destination. I can see it, hear it, feel it but I can’t get there. I am praying daily that what happens there would spread here, and that the flow would not be hindered in anyway.
midnightcry // May 2, 2008 at 10:42 am |
Thanks for your rant! And you are right. Those are some pretty personal questions to actually respond to on a blog.
The whole authority in prayer for me flows out of an understanding of who God is and how He views me.
#1 Big, huge God loves me, redeems me, paid the ultimate price for me, and adopts me.
#2 Big, huge, all powerful, sovereign God has seated me with Christ in heavenly places. (Ephesians 2:6)
I better keep the first in mind before I step into the authority of the other. I better take seriously the responsibility of the second as a part of the debt I owe to the first.
Makes me think of the whole fear of the LORD thing we talked about last year.
midnightcry // May 2, 2008 at 10:43 am |
Oh yeah, and can there be some way for me to be translated to Florida and back?
completefaith // May 2, 2008 at 11:54 am |
Faith
Mustard Seed
Do you belive God is that BIG?
LOL, I know the focus of my personal prayer for the next while. Maybe I will see you there…