"Maintenance prayer meetings are short, mechanical and totally focused on physical needs inside the church or on personal needs of the people present. But frontline prayer has three basic traits: a) a request for grace to confess sins and humble ourselves,
b) a compassion and zeal for the flourishing of the church, and
c) a yearning to know God, to see his face, to see his glory."
b) a compassion and zeal for the flourishing of the church, and
c) a yearning to know God, to see his face, to see his glory."
Tim Keller, "Kingdom-centered Prayer," Redeemer Report, January 2006.
But to deviate from the truth for the sake of some prospect of hope of our own can never be wise, however slight that deviation may be. It is not our judgement of the situation which can show us what is wise, but only the truth of the Word of God. Here alone lies the promise of God's faithfulness and help. It will always be true that the wisest course for the disciple is always to abide soley by the Word of God in all simplicity." Bonhoeffer, quoted in Peterson,
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
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