Posts Tagged ‘prayer’
11.26.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 12. Involved.
DEVOTION: “God,” said Pascal, “instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality.” But not only prayer; whenever we act at all He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do…
Read More11.25.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 11. Open.
DEVOTION: Here’s the larger portion of the quote from yesterday’s devotion. “Petitionary prayer is, nonetheless, both allowed and commanded to us; “Give us our daily bread.” And no doubt it raises a theoretical problem. Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestion of men? For infinite wisdom does…
Read More11.24.20 – Daily Dose of Worship – A study on prayer. Part 10. How to begin?
DEVOTION: “For up until now we have been tackling the whole question in the wrong way and on the wrong level. The very question “Does prayer work?” puts us in the wrong frame of mind from the outset. “Work” as if it were magic or machine, something that functions automatically. Prayer is either a sheer…
Read More11.23.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 9. Willing.
DEVOTION: I heard this quote today. “When we pray, it’s not so much what we say, it’s our willingness to meet with God.” How willing are you to meet with God? How often are you willing? Compelling questions. Questions that need answers for each of us. “Come to me, all you who are weary and…
Read More11.22.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 8. Know.
DEVOTION: “Our assurance is quite different in kind from scientific knowledge. It is born out of our personal relation to the other parties; not from knowing things about them but knowing them.” (pg 8) Knowing God. How do we get to know God? Seems like a simple question. One that takes a lifetime to answer.…
Read MoreDaily Devotions with davepettigrew. Season 5. Episode 3. Search Me.
Today we’re talking about your heart. About the deep recesses of your heart. We’re focusing on these verses from Psalm 139: 23-24 – “Search me O God and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Let’s…
Read More11.21.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 7. Speechless.
DEVOTION: I’m going to continue the quote that was included yesterday as there a few important points in there. Here’s how it continues: “But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God – that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for…
Read More11.20.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 6. The conversation.
DEVOTION: “An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him.” (Pg 6) We pray to God because God prompts us to…
Read More11.19.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 5. Speak.
DEVOTION: “Words without thoughts never to heaven go,” says the King in Hamlet. Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of properly trained parrots would serve as well as men for our experiment. You cannot pray for the recovery of the sick unless the end you have in view is their…
Read More11.18.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 4. Ready?
DEVOTION: If you haven’t read yesterday’s entry yet, you need to. This will make a lot more sense if you do. Yesterday we were talking about Jesus’ “unanswered prayer” in Gethsemane. C.S. Lewis’ quote on this was as follows: “In Gethsemane, the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass…
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