Prayer is indeed a mystery, but it is stressed over and over again in the New Testament as a vital prerequisite for the release and experience of God’s power. It is true that it is God who delivers, and that God stands in no need of human prayers before He can act on behalf of His afflicted servants. Yet there is the manward as well as the Godward aspect of such deliverance, and the manward side is summed up in the duty of Christians to intercede... In prayer, human impotence casts itself at the feet of divine omnipotence. Thus the duty of prayer is not a modiﬁcation of God’s power, but a gloriﬁcation of it.

Philip Hughes

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Dairy		Salad	16	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Chopped nuts
2	pk	Cherry jello
1	c	Hot water
1	cn	(large) crushed pineapple
1	c	Frozen strawberries
2		Bananas; mashed
1	ct	Sour cream; at room temp.

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix Jello in hot water, add all ingredients except sour cream. The hot
water will soften the frozen strawberries. Pour half the mixture in a mold
and place in refrigerator to gel. After it congeals, remove and spread with
sour cream. Pour remaining mixture on top of sour cream. Return to
refrigerator to set. Cut into squares and serve on lettuce leaf.
From <A Taste of Louisiana>.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

A Message from our Provider:

“Been falsely accused of the most awful things? Then you know how God feels”

As we come to Christ, then, empty-handed, claiming no merit of our own, but clinging by faith to His blood and righteousness, we are justified. We pass immediately from a state of condemnation and spiritual death to a state of pardon, acceptance, and the sure hope of eternal life. Our sins are blotted out, and we are “clothed” with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. In our standing before God, we will never be more righteous, even in heaven, than we were the day we trusted Christ, or we are now. Obviously in our daily experience we fall far short of the perfect righteousness God requires. But because He has imputed to us the perfect righteousness of His Son, He now sees us as being just as righteous as Christ Himself.

Jerry Bridges