7/15/2025

Watch Your Hearts In Prayer: John Owen

 The Cultivation of Watchfulness 

"Be sure to lay in provision in store against the approaching of any temptation. This also belongs to our watchfulness over our hearts…. Gospel provisions will do this work; that is, keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. —John Owen, Of Temptation: The Nature and Power of It; the Danger of Entering Into It; and the Means of Preventing that Danger."


Hedges, Brian G.. Watchfulness: Recovering a Lost Spiritual Discipline (p. 69). Reformation Heritage Books. Kindle Edition. 

7/02/2024

Oswald Chambers: The Art Of Prayer

 



"Mastering the art of prayer, like anything else, takes time. The time we give it will be a true measure of its importance to us.

All Christians need more teaching in the art of prayer, and the Holy Spirit is the master teacher. The Spirit’s help in prayer is mentioned in the Bible more frequently than any other help he gives us. All true praying comes from the Spirit’s activity in our souls.
We are to pray in the realm of the Spirit, for the Holy Spirit is the sphere and atmosphere of the Christian life. Much praying is psychical rather than spiritual, in the realm of the mind alone, the product of our own thinking and not of the Spirit’s teaching. But real prayer is deeper. It uses the body, requires the cooperation of the mind, and moves in the supernatural realm of the Spirit.
God has ordained prayer, and we can be confident that as we meet revealed conditions for prayer, answers will be granted. God sees no contradiction between human free will and divine response to prayer. Our obligation to pray stands above any dilemma concerning the effects of prayer.
The praying Christian wields no personal power and authority, but authority delegated by the victorious Christ to whom that faithful believer is united by faith.
Great leaders of the Bible were great at prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy of thought, because they were exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God."


6/17/2024

Where Prayer Becomes Real by Kyle Strobel and John Coe

A Prayer For The Fulness of The Holy Spirit: J.D. Walt

Father, how we thank you for the Holy Spirit, who brings Jesus from being with us to being in us; who brings us inside the inner courts of the fellowship of heaven—right here on earth. Would you lead me into the fullness of the Holy Spirit, bringing me into a discipleship beyond what I have known before? Even if I feel like I already know, wake me up to realize there is more that I don’t know than I do know. Would you bring me into the knowing beyond knowledge that I might be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God—in this life? Praying in Jesus’s name, amen."  www.seedbed.com 

6/07/2024

Receiving God's Lament And Releasing Our Outrage: A Prayer By J.D. Walt

 

THE PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION

Lord Jesus, I want to be your witness, a real Christian. To that end, 

I receive your righteousness and release my sinfulness.
I receive your lament and release my outrage.
I receive your faith and release my fear.
I receive your hope and release my optimism and pessimism.
I receive your love and release my self-interestedness. 

Come, Holy Spirit, transform my heart, mind, soul, and strength so that my consecration becomes your demonstration; that our lives become your sanctuary. For the glory of God our Father, amen. 

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Watch Your Hearts In Prayer: John Owen

  The Cultivation of Watchfulness  "Be sure to lay in provision in store against the approaching of any temptation. This also belongs t...