Yesterday I didn't expound on what I'd read at all so we're doing that today, by the grace of God. So let's read this again pausing here and there to contemplate what is being said…
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'Holy desire is much helped by devout contemplation. Meditation on our spiritual need, and on God's readiness and ability to correct it, aids desire to grow. Serious thought engaged in before praying, increases desire, makes it more insistent, and tends to save us from the menace of private prayer -- wandering thought.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 14 from yesterday
******* Who among us hasn't had our minds wander during prayer? Seriously. I'd love to be able to say my mind has never wandered, my thoughts have never taken any wrong turns while I was praying, while I was speaking to my God, but I wouldn't be telling the truth.
If we were talking with someone and suddenly we started doing something else, that person we were talking to would be a little confused, wouldn't they? They'd wondered why we stopped talking to them. They'd wonder why we were suddenly ignoring them in favor of doing something else. They might even ask us what we are doing, why we are doing it. Then again they might get angry and not say a word. If we were in the habit of behaving that way, they'd most likely accept that we are in the habit and shrug it off if our friendship meant something to them. However, if we simply let our minds wander away to something else during prayer we are stunting the communication we are having with our Father God, GOD, Our HEAVENLY FATHER! We are present before our Creator, our Savior, our King, our Everything, the most important Being we could ever be in audience with and we let our minds wander?!
Satan will do everything he can to get us to let our minds wander, to lose focus on God.
Here, E.M. Bounds is saying that we need to spend time in 'devout contemplation'. We need to meditate on our 'spiritual need'. We need to meditate on God's willingness, His readiness, His ability to fix our 'Holy Desire' to heal us, to help us desire HIM. If we THINK about praying, about our prayers before we actually pray perhaps it will be true that our thoughts won't tend to wander. This is something very worth trying, isn't it?
To think, truly think about praying is this something we need more of? I know forms of prayer that aren't said with true heart feeling are wrong, and I know we shouldn't always think about what we are going to say, we must leave room to let the Spirit guide us, but perhaps we need to think more. We are seeking an audience with God. We are believing He hears our prayers. We honestly need to think on this MORE.
Php_4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Thinking on our GOD and our communication with our GOD cannot be a bad thing, all by HIS GRACE, by HIS LOVE!
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'Holy desire is much helped by devout contemplation. Meditation on our spiritual need, and on God's readiness and ability to correct it, aids desire to grow. Serious thought engaged in before praying, increases desire, makes it more insistent, and tends to save us from the menace of private prayer -- wandering thought.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 14 from yesterday
******* Who among us hasn't had our minds wander during prayer? Seriously. I'd love to be able to say my mind has never wandered, my thoughts have never taken any wrong turns while I was praying, while I was speaking to my God, but I wouldn't be telling the truth.
If we were talking with someone and suddenly we started doing something else, that person we were talking to would be a little confused, wouldn't they? They'd wondered why we stopped talking to them. They'd wonder why we were suddenly ignoring them in favor of doing something else. They might even ask us what we are doing, why we are doing it. Then again they might get angry and not say a word. If we were in the habit of behaving that way, they'd most likely accept that we are in the habit and shrug it off if our friendship meant something to them. However, if we simply let our minds wander away to something else during prayer we are stunting the communication we are having with our Father God, GOD, Our HEAVENLY FATHER! We are present before our Creator, our Savior, our King, our Everything, the most important Being we could ever be in audience with and we let our minds wander?!
Satan will do everything he can to get us to let our minds wander, to lose focus on God.
Here, E.M. Bounds is saying that we need to spend time in 'devout contemplation'. We need to meditate on our 'spiritual need'. We need to meditate on God's willingness, His readiness, His ability to fix our 'Holy Desire' to heal us, to help us desire HIM. If we THINK about praying, about our prayers before we actually pray perhaps it will be true that our thoughts won't tend to wander. This is something very worth trying, isn't it?
To think, truly think about praying is this something we need more of? I know forms of prayer that aren't said with true heart feeling are wrong, and I know we shouldn't always think about what we are going to say, we must leave room to let the Spirit guide us, but perhaps we need to think more. We are seeking an audience with God. We are believing He hears our prayers. We honestly need to think on this MORE.
Php_4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Thinking on our GOD and our communication with our GOD cannot be a bad thing, all by HIS GRACE, by HIS LOVE!
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