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Broken Wings Ministry
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Lord, Break our hearts with the things that break the heart of God
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A Sinner’s Prayer:
The tax gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift his eyes up to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ - I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.
Luke 18:13 & 14 The words of Jesus paraphrased.
The prayer of salvation is as simple as what you have just read. Coming to God in humble sincerity, recognizing ones sinful nature, admitting that we are powerless to change on our own, and asking Jesus to come into our hearts to change our lives and give us the power to become children of God and to live for Him.
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The Wisdom of Prayer :
"Nothing can so quickly cancel the frictions of life as prayer. If you find yourself growing angry at someone, pray for him -- anger cannot live in an atmosphere of prayer." (William T. McElroy)
"You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we think." (Brother Lawrence)
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me." (Robert Murray McCheyne)
"The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!'" (J. Hudson Taylor)
"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers." (J. Sidlow Baxter)
"What the Church needs today is not more or better machinery, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer." (E.M. Bounds)
See: Psa 61:1-2; Rom 12:12
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The Struggle of Prayer:
Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given.
Prayer that affects one's ministry must give tone to one's life. The praying which gives color and bent to character is no pleasant hurried pastime. Praying is spiritual work; and human nature does not like taxing, spiritual work. Human nature wants to sail to heaven under a favoring breeze, a full, smooth sea. Prayer is humbling work!!!
So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times -- little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
Prayer is not a little habit pinned onto us while we were tied to our mother's apron strings: neither is it a little decent quarter of a minute's grace said over an hour's dinner, but it is a more serious work of our most serious years.
No leaving can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
-- Power Through Prayer, by E.M. Bounds (1835-1913).
See: Eph 6:18-20
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