Yesterday, as part of the teaching team in a room full of beautiful,
eager, smart, rambunctious Gr. 4-6 Sunday School students,
I couldn't help but long and pray
for each of them to choose Jesus while they are young;
to be saved from a bitter harvest of wasted years!
Yesterday's was a solemn lesson; Jesus' crucifixion,
stirring and touching tender hearts!
Will you pray for them, and for children the whole wide world over
to believe in and receive Jesus as their Saviour while they are young?!!
On Saturday I compiled this post after listening to the message below...
and before listening to the message our speaker preached yesterday
also on prayer!!!
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Devote yourselves to prayer,
being watchful and thankful.
Col.4:2
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Pray in the Spirit at all times,
with every kind of prayer and petition.
To this end, stay alert with all perseverance
in your prayers for all the saints.
Below are some excerpts from Alistair's message;
Alistair Begg begins this message, (an address to students), with this;
"The things I want to share with you are things
that are pressingly important to me.
They are personal things.
They are biblical truths.
They are necessary matters"...
If our prayer is meager
it is because we believe it to be supplemental
and not fundamental.
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If we pray only when we feel like it
we will not pray very much at all.
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More spiritual progress is made through failure and tears
than through success and laughter.
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C.T. Stodd
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me
then no sacrifice that I could ever make for Him
could ever be too great
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Can I tell you how to amount to absolutely nothing for God?
Think of yourself more highly than you ought.
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Humility is the very seed-bed
in which all of the graces and gifts of God
grow to their maturity
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1 Pet. 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand,
that he may lift you up in due time.
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I am not talking about our resolves.
I am not talking about our desires and designs.
I am talking about our doing!
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I want to tell you,
"When I talk more than I pray,
When I study more than I seek God's help,
When I am tempted to think that when I am on my feet
I am at my most useful,
and when I am on my knees that I am
somehow filling in time that could be more beneficially exercised,
then I am declaring that I am on the wrong side
of this equation.
You see, since prayer is the key area of our relationship
with our Heavenly Father, it is this area
that is most frequently under attack.
Indeed, I might safely say to you
that you will face no greater attack than in this area
because the evil one knows that the weaponry
that our Commander in Chief, namely Jesus,
has given to us is prayer and the ministry of the word of God.
Therefore He will come to confront us with our view of scripture
and to seek to call in question
the voracity and the sufficiency of God's word,
and he will at the same time seek to undermine any
deep-seated conviction that we have,
that it is imperative that we come to Him and cry out
'Abba, Father!' and that we seek His help
in every part of our journey.."
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No Christian is greater than his/her prayer life
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The secret to praying is
praying in secret
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...but, in the matter of praying
how tragic that so many
have left so much
to so few...
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Set your moral compasses now.
Take the high ground.
Go for the gold.
Live for Christ.
There is no good thing that the Lord withholds
from those whose walk is blameless
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...and here is my prayer
for every boy and girl
the wide world over...
Don't wait till you are old
To seek the good and right
Don't wait till worldly pleasure clouds
God's wellspring of delight
Remember your Creator
While in your days of youth
Don't wait till you are old to mine
God's Word for wealth of truth
But love the Lord today
With all your heart; don't wait
Till you are old, to start, because
Then it may be too late
This is my earnest plea
For every girl and boy
Don't wait till you are old, and life
Is full of wasted joy
This is my earnest plea
For children far and near
Don't wait till God becomes a Voice
That you no longer hear
© Janet Martin
Eccles.12:1
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
“I have no pleasure in them”:
Isa.66:1-2
This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
2Has not my hand made all these things,
and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.
“These are the ones I look on with favor:
those who are humble and contrite in spirit,
and who tremble at my word.
