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.
What a company we have here tonight! It fills my heart with gladness, and my eyes with tears of joy, to see so many hundreds of persons gathered together at what is sometimes wickedly described as “only a prayer meeting.” It is good for us to draw night unto God in prayer, and specially good to make up a great congregation for such a purpose. We have attended little prayer meetings of four or five, and we have been glad to be there, for we had the promise of our Lord’s presence; but our minds are grieved to see so little attention given to united prayer by many of our churches. We have longed to see great numbers of God’s people coming up to pray, and we now enjoy this sight. Let us praise God that it is so. How could we expect a blessing if we were too idle to ask for it? How could we look for a Pentecost if we never met with one accord, in one place, to wait upon the Lord? Brethren, we shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
Heat oven to 350@. Grease 24 medium muffin tins or line with paper baking
cups. Mix butter, sugars, eggs and extract in large mixing bowl til
blended. Beat on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally, 5 mins. On low
speed, beat in flour, baking powder and salt alternately with milk. Fill
muffin cups 1/3 full and place 1 unwrapped chocolate egg in the center of
each. Top with remaining batter, to 2/3 full. Bake 18 to 20 mins or til top
springs back when touched. Cool. Frost as desired.
Recipe by: Domino's Powdered Sugar ad
Posted to KitMailbox Digest by Cairn Rodrigues <cairnann@yahoo.com> on Apr
6, 1998
A Message from our Provider:
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess. #Corrie ten Boom”
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