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Monday, April 16, 2007
We Pray as Well as We Live
Posted in Scripture StudiesGenerally, 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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Monday, April 16, 2007
Christianity is no longer producing saints
Posted in Scripture StudiesChristianity Is No Longer Producing Saintliness
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. 2 Peter 3:18
It is possible for a whole generation of professing Christians to be victims
of poor teaching, low moral standards and unscriptural or extrascriptural
doctrines, resulting in stunted growth and retarded development.
It is little less than stark tragedy that an individual Christian may pass
from youth to old age in a state of suspended growth and all his life be
unaware of it!
Those who would question the truth of this have only to read the First
Epistle to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the Hebrews; and church
history adds all the further proof that is needed.
In today's Christianity, we have measured ourselves by ourselves until the
incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but
gone!
The fact is that we are no longer producing saints. We are making converts
to an effete type of Christianity that bears little resemblance to that of
the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian in our times is but
a wretched parody on true sainthood! Clearly, we must begin to produce
better Christians!
We must insist on New Testament sainthood for our converts, nothing less;
and we must lead them into a state of heart purity, fiery love, separation
from the world and poured-out devotion to the Person of Christ.
Only in this way can the low level of spirituality be raised again to where
it should be in the light of the Scriptures and of eternal values!
A. W. Tozer
From: Renewed Day by Day, Volume One
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