Thoughts on Prayer

Pray With Eyes Wide Open

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:20:00 GMT

What better can we do, than — prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek? (William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing)

Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. (Colossians 4:2 NLT)

Given to Prayer

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:52:00 GMT

"But we will give ourselves continually^(G4342) to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." (Acts 6:4 KJV)

For God does not employ prayerless ministers, since He has no dumb children. (A. W. Pink)

Prayer, the thermometer of life

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

"But obedience in the matter of prayer is costly and takes commitment. On Monday night as our week of prayer began, a mere thirty-four adults showed up out of a regular church attendance of twenty-three hundred. By Thursday, only seventeen adults were praying. I was totally discouraged." Stephen Arterburn, Every Man's Battle

Perhaps some would find a book on the temptations men face and their fight for purity a strange place to find the aforementioned comment on prayer. However, I find it most timely indeed.

Great Need of Watchfulness and of Prayer

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

"There is in the Christian life great need of watchfulness and of prayer, of selfdenial and of striving, of obedience and of diligence. But "all things are possible to him that believeth." "This is the victory that overcometh, even our faith."

Pray by rote and you won't float

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

What a difference there is between a deeply exercised and spiritually burdened heart pouring out itself before God in fervent supplication and the utterance of verbal petitions by rote! Arthur W. Pink

St. Francis of Assisi

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A much loved prayer of St Francis of Assisi:

Pray in the Name of Jesus

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

"By consequence, 'whatsoever he doeth , it is all to the glory of God.' In all his employments of every kind, he not only aims at this (which is implied in having a single eye ), but actually attains it.... (John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection)

The battle ensues in our culture to secularize the religious for the sake of tolerance in the public arena.

For Renewal of Joy - Robert Lewis Stevenson

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

We are evil, O God, and help us to see it and amend....Robert Lewis Stevenson - Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn

When we look into the mirror, what do we see?

Before A Temporary Separation - Robert Lewis Stevenson

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

To-day we go forth separate, some of us to pleasure, some of us to worship, some upon duty.... (Robert Louis Stevenson-Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn)

Another For Evening - Robert Lewis Stevenson

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:44:00 GMT

Lord, receive our supplications for this house, family, and country. Protect the innocent, restrain the greedy and the treacherous, lead us out of our tribulation into a quiet land.... (Robert Lewis Stevenson, Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn)