Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
From E. Stanley Jones
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
We grow small trying to be great.
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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