Prayer

The following is a section from The Doctrine of Prayer (pg. 12) by T.W. Hunt. It is a great reminder today of God's care for us. Be encouraged. He knows you so intimately: even the hairs on your head are numbered (Matt. 10:30).

"Prayer can have no meaning unless it takes into account God's total nature. He is holy; we come to Him on those grounds. He is love; we pray knowing that He is concerned about our needs. Because He is merciful, God understands and cares about human need. In most of the prayers of biblical characters, God took the initiative. It is that initiating God who tells us: 'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened' (Matt. 7:7-8). The greatest saints have always known intuitively, from the depths of their spiritual nature, that God desires to provide for His own. Abraham assured Isaac as he was preparing to ascend Mount Moriah, 'God will provide HImself the lamb for the burnt offering' (Gen. 22:8). Only one who grasped the truth that God is concerned about human need could cry out, 'The Lord is my Shepherd' (Ps. 23:1) or 'The Lord is your keeper' (Ps. 121:5). Supremely, it Jesus who assures us with the most graphic pictures that God is deeply concerned for our needs. He asked, as though it were the most reasonable question imaginable, 'If God so arrays the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much do so for you, O men of little faith?' (Matt. 6:30)"

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1. John Hollan wrote:
Knowing myself as I do, it never ceases to amaze me that God loves me so greatly. Thanks for the reminder...

(Aside: I love TW Hunt. We had the opportunity to host him in our church about several years ago... he's a great man.)

April 28, 2008 @ 12:17 PM

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