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Monday, April 16, 2007

We Pray as Well as We Live

Posted in Scripture Studies
Generally, We Pray Only as Well as We Live

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Psalm 66:18

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else
being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives.

In the long pull, we pray only as well as we live!

Some prayers are like a fire escape, used only in times of critical
emergency-never very enjoyable, but used as a way of terrified escape from
disaster. They do not represent the regular life of the one who offers them;
rather, they are the unusual and uncommon acts of the spiritual amateur.

Most of us in moments of stress have wished that we had lived so that prayer
would not be so unnatural to us and have regretted that we had not
cultivated prayer to the point where it would be as easy and as natural as
breathing.

No Christian wants to live his whole life on an emergency level. As we go on
into God we shall see excellency of the life of constant communion where all
thoughts and acts are prayers, and the entire life becomes one holy
sacrifice of prayer and worship!

To pray effectively it is required of us that there be no unblessed areas in
our lives, no parts of the mind or soul that are not inhabited by the
Spirit, no impure desires allowed to live within us, no disparity between
our prayers and our conduct.

Undoubtedly the redemption in Christ Jesus has sufficient moral power to
enable us to live in a state of purity and love, where our whole life will
be a prayer!

A. W. Tozer
From: Renewed Day by Day, Volume One

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