'Our Lord warns us against feeble praying. "Men ought always to pray," He declares, "and not to faint." That means, that we are to possess sufficient fervency to carry us through the severe and long periods of pleading prayer. Fire makes one alert and vigilant, and brings him off, more than conqueror. The atmosphere about us is too heavily charged with resisting forces for limp or languid prayers to make headway. It takes heat, and fervency and meteoric fire, to push through, to the upper heavens, where God dwells with His saints, in light.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 24)
Luk_18:1 ... that men ought always to pray, and not to faint
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It is true- 'The atmosphere about us is too heavily charged with resisting forces for limp or languid prayers…'
All around us we are surrounded by things that would keep us as far from our God as possible. At every turn we are confronted by spiritual wickedness striving to get us to focus on life around us, and not on life to come. If we 'pray always' then we are in a constant state of comprehension that we are in touch with the HEAVENLY, not the earthly. We truly need to be in touch with the HEAVENLY, don't we?
When we are in love don't we have a constant thought about the one we love? Aren't there things all through our day that remind us of our loved one? The back of our mind is filled with the knowledge of our loved one, and all we do has us bringing our thoughts back around again to them. Our constant state of prayer is a constant connection with our loving Heavenly Father. Every failing we find ourselves sadly immersed in is a call for us to remember our connection with heaven, in fact it's a cry for us to not only remember but to renew that connection- that constant connection.
Surely we cannot always be in prayer upon our knees, eyes closed, head bowed- but we need to always be in a constant mental state of prayer- in the awareness of heaven as our home, not here, not now. The things of this world WILL overwhelm us without this constant connection.
Fainting is so easy without our heavenly Father. Fainting spiritually, letting down our spiritual guard, when this happens we leave ourselves incredibly vulnerable.
Our Savior did NOT admonish us to pray always so we don't faint, without a good reason!
We have to be HEAVEN CONNECTED!
By the grace of God!
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 24)
Luk_18:1 ... that men ought always to pray, and not to faint
*******
It is true- 'The atmosphere about us is too heavily charged with resisting forces for limp or languid prayers…'
All around us we are surrounded by things that would keep us as far from our God as possible. At every turn we are confronted by spiritual wickedness striving to get us to focus on life around us, and not on life to come. If we 'pray always' then we are in a constant state of comprehension that we are in touch with the HEAVENLY, not the earthly. We truly need to be in touch with the HEAVENLY, don't we?
When we are in love don't we have a constant thought about the one we love? Aren't there things all through our day that remind us of our loved one? The back of our mind is filled with the knowledge of our loved one, and all we do has us bringing our thoughts back around again to them. Our constant state of prayer is a constant connection with our loving Heavenly Father. Every failing we find ourselves sadly immersed in is a call for us to remember our connection with heaven, in fact it's a cry for us to not only remember but to renew that connection- that constant connection.
Surely we cannot always be in prayer upon our knees, eyes closed, head bowed- but we need to always be in a constant mental state of prayer- in the awareness of heaven as our home, not here, not now. The things of this world WILL overwhelm us without this constant connection.
Fainting is so easy without our heavenly Father. Fainting spiritually, letting down our spiritual guard, when this happens we leave ourselves incredibly vulnerable.
Our Savior did NOT admonish us to pray always so we don't faint, without a good reason!
We have to be HEAVEN CONNECTED!
By the grace of God!
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