tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559264494172724381.post500500506922910734..comments2023-07-05T09:03:51.480-04:00Comments on Love Notes to Yahweh: Prayer: The Great Cop-OutL.L. Barkathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13333960142447144678noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559264494172724381.post-22625141427947932472012-07-05T17:00:28.821-04:002012-07-05T17:00:28.821-04:00This is reminiscent of James 2:16.This is reminiscent of James 2:16.Monica Sharmanhttp://monicasharman.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559264494172724381.post-85665455241649916872012-07-02T11:32:50.375-04:002012-07-02T11:32:50.375-04:00Sometimes when God is silent, it's because I n...Sometimes when God is silent, it's because I need to get off my butt and do a particular thing I don't want to do.Megan Willomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11494508400178014999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559264494172724381.post-53893561259865421092012-07-02T11:18:46.440-04:002012-07-02T11:18:46.440-04:00Prayer is being in relationship with Christ. A rel...Prayer is being in relationship with Christ. A relationship involves both being with one another and acting for/with one another. We as Christ's followers often hide behind "prayer" (i. e, "I'll pray about it") rather than being prayer...being words that act the Word of God to others. Like Mary, we are puzzled by the how and why of things and yet also we are invited to be stunningly surrendered to God's power, who brings forth life. We don't just pray, we live prayerful lives where we are being actively grace, actively mercy, actively love, actively forgiveness, actively healed and healing. Posers pose behind words. Pray-ers enact the Word Himself by risking and wrestling forward into change. We declare glory then we bring forth our own good hearts, made so by His good heart, and then we pour forth glory. Like we see in C S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, as Mr. Beaver reminds us, Aslan is not safe, but He is good. I believe we are to be likewise...acting beyond the "safe, comfort zones" into the wildness of Real Love and Truth.<br />Joyfully,<br />Lane ArnoldLanehttp://lanearnold.conoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559264494172724381.post-87959331310079740902012-07-02T11:13:37.306-04:002012-07-02T11:13:37.306-04:00Discernment is key, listening for when we are to m...Discernment is key, listening for when we are to move out. It is sometimes known in the blink of an eye. Then we must step out! It is easy to content ourselves with never getting our hands dirty. That, as you say, is a condoned dysfunction.Marilyn Yocumhttp://www.marilynyocum.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559264494172724381.post-48139903815491445052012-07-02T10:50:15.084-04:002012-07-02T10:50:15.084-04:00Leave it to you to shake things up...
I'm unc...Leave it to you to shake things up...<br /><br />I'm uncomfortable thinking you're right, but I'm thinking you're right. <br /><br />We're told to pray and not be anxious, to cast our cares on Him. <br /><br />But we are also told to acknowledge God in all our ways. Which implies that we must have ways. By which we do things. In which we may and must and should acknowledge Him. Open our lives up to Him. Let Him in <br />as<br />we<br />live.<br /><br />We don't know what change HE wants to effect through our lives, but we have to live them with Him in us, not just sit back and do nothing while we wait for a sign...<br /><br />I'm remembering something about the "effective, fervent prayer" of a righteous man availing much. Is that perhaps because the man made righteous in Christ prays with his whole life?Kelly Sauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138861838948184728noreply@blogger.com