[SHADOW=silver]The Devine Region of Religion [/SHADOW]
Matthew 6
6 "But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
The main idea in the region of religion is -- Your eyes on God, not on man. Do not have as your desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which t pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door and talk to God in secret. Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions ..(v.7) God does not hear us because we are in earnest, but only on the ground of Redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness. Prayer is not simple getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.
"Everyone that asks receives." We pray pious blether., our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer, we never asked for anything. "You shall ask what you will." said Jesus. Asking means our will is in it. Whenever Jesus talked about prayer, He put it with the grand simplicity of a child: we bring in our critical temper and say -- yes, but Jesus said "Ask" But remember that we have to ask of God things that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
Oswald Chambers
Matthew 6
6 "But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
The main idea in the region of religion is -- Your eyes on God, not on man. Do not have as your desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which t pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door and talk to God in secret. Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions ..(v.7) God does not hear us because we are in earnest, but only on the ground of Redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness. Prayer is not simple getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.
"Everyone that asks receives." We pray pious blether., our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer, we never asked for anything. "You shall ask what you will." said Jesus. Asking means our will is in it. Whenever Jesus talked about prayer, He put it with the grand simplicity of a child: we bring in our critical temper and say -- yes, but Jesus said "Ask" But remember that we have to ask of God things that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
Oswald Chambers