God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Christian prayer is NOT:
1. To give God information – Matt. 6:8.
2. Telling God what to do – Rom. 11:34.
3. Asking God to engineer a situation to the end we desire.
4. Something we do to please or appease God – Jn. 19:30.
5. A meritorious performance God expects of us; a duty or obligation of obedience.
6. An exercise to make us better, stronger, or more “spiritual.”
7. For therapeutic psychological adjustment, “good feelings.”
8. Self-instruction to gain a knowledge of God’s will.
9. Soliciting more “blessings” or “benefits” from God.
10. An evasion of the problems and anxieties of contemporary existence.
11. Superstitious, mystical or magical trance.
12. A spiritual “power-tool” to employ the “power of prayer.”
13. A discipline or devotional exercise that will lead us to godliness.
14. Demanding our rights before God.
15. Persistence and shameless haranguing until we get what we want.
16. A mechanical ritual or rote formulas.
17. An external religious action, pretentious and ostentatious – Matt. 6:5, 6.
18. Verbosity of meaningless repetition – Matt. 6:7.
19. A religious activity executed “on command” – litanies, rosaries, etc.
20. Prescribed by place, time or procedure.
It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. “He hath chosen us, that we should be holy,” (Ephesians 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to holiness, not for it.
Microwave the bacon for 4 minutes or until done. Add the potatoes, onion
and garlic. Stir to coat with fat. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and
microwave at full power for 5 minutes. Uncover and add chicken broth and
pepper flakes. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and microwave for 10
minutes at full power or until potatoes are tender.
Stir two tablespoons of milk into the cornstarch. Uncover. Add remaining
milk, cornstarch mixture and salt. Cover and cook at full power 15 minutes
or until mixture is boiling rapidly. Stir in the corn and peppers.
Cover and cook 4 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Discard garlic.
Stir in remaining ingredients. Serve immediately.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #031 by Marie Bordewisch
<msleukie@mindspring.com> on Jan 30, 1998
A Message from our Provider:
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. #C.S. Lewis”
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