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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Powerful Prayer
“Give us this day our daily bread…”
Your first step into the house of God was not to the kitchen but to the living room, where you were reminded of your adoption. “Our Father who is in heaven.” You then studied the foundation of the house, where you pondered his permanence. “Our Father who is in heaven.” Next you entered the observatory and marveled at his handiwork: “Our Father who is in heaven.”
In the chapel, you worshiped his holiness: “Hallowed be thy name.” In the throne room, you touched the lowered scepter and prayed the greatest prayer, “Thy kingdom come.” In the study, you submitted your desires to his and prayed, “Thy will be done.” And all of heaven was silent as you placed your prayer in the furnace, saying, “on earth as it is in heaven.”
Proper prayer follows such a path, revealing God to us before revealing our needs to God.
The purpose of prayer is not to change God, but to change us, and by the time we reach God’s kitchen, we are changed people. Wasn’t our heart warmed when we called Him Father? Weren’t our fears stilled when we contemplated His constancy? Weren’t we amazed as we stared at the heavens?
By the time we step into the kitchen, we’re renewed people! We’ve been comforted by our father, conformed by his nature, consumed by our creator, convicted by his character, constrained by his power, commissioned by our teacher, and compelled by his attention to our prayers.
The prayer’s next three petitions encompass all of the concerns of our life:
- “This daily bread” addresses the present.
- “Forgive our sins” addresses the past.
- “Lead us not into temptation” speaks to the future.
(The wonder of God’s wisdom: how he can reduce all our needs to three simple statements.)
First He addresses our need for bread. The term means all of a person’s physical needs. Martin Luther defined bread as “Everything necessary for the preservation of this life, including food, a healthy body, house, home, wife and children.” This verse urges us to talk to God about the necessities of life. He may also give us the luxuries of life, but He certainly will grant the necessities.
Excerpted from any fear that God wouldn’t meet our needs was left in the observatory. Would He give the stars their glitter and not give us our food? Of course not. He has committed to care for us. We aren’t wrestling crumbs out of a reluctant hand, but rather confessing the bounty of a generous hand. The essence of the prayer is really an affirmation of the Father’s care. Our provision is His priority.
From The Great House of God
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 1997) Max Lucado
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Sinful Envy
Here is an article I copied from Kerygma Mailing List this morning:
When others are blessed, we’re likely to be jealous, unconsciously thinking that they’re getting something that could possibly be ours. For example, when someone gets a promotion at work, instead of rejoicing with that person, you’ll hear others say that corporate patronage was behind the move.
But God’s blessing is for all. It’s like the Niagara Falls with its mighty water rushing to the bottom. The water travels upstream first before it flows downstream but it eventually reaches its destination. Its falls generates so much mist that it projects a number of rainbows. Like the waters of Niagara, God’s blessings may seem to reach others first.
We just have to stay thankful and faithful even as we persevere in claiming His promises. And just as the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant with His people (Genesis 3), He is faithful in keeping His promises to us.
Reflection: Do you always feel that the neighbour next door or your co-worker is being blessed more often than you?
Pray: Lord, give me a thankful heart that I may realize that You always provide for what I need.
Envy is a horrible sin. Saul envies the success of David even though it is obvious to everyone that his success was due to the hand of God achieving victory over Goliath.
Francis of Assisi gives us something to consider about envy when he says he thinks it is a sin against the Holy Spirit. Why?
He sees envy as the direct refusal of a person to rejoice in the way the Holy Spirit has chosen to work through another person.
This has been happening to me lately. I must be honest that sometimes I secretly jealous / envy towards some of my friends who seem richly blessed and already got good things that I have been wishing for since a long time ago… I failed to recognize God’s great blessings in my life and my family. I repent for that…
Thank You for correcting me God…
I’m not a sin’s servant anymore.
I want to keep walking in Your path and keep the freedom You have given me…
Monday, January 18, 2010
My First Post in 2010
This is my very first post in 2010 :)
Like I've told you before, I made a new blog on Wordpress to gain my freedom in writing :p It feels more comfortable to write personal updates or whatever crosses my mind in an anonymous mode :p Only few friends of mine knows about my new blog :p No hard feeling :p But I still write in my other public blog. It contains the same contents as here in my multiply.
Lately I have been busy with a new side job :p Writing paid review blog posts. It's quite fun since I also learn new English topics and vocabularies. So it increases my income and also my knowledge, a perfect combination for my brain LOL :p
Ok it's time to go home now. Bye all... :)