“ Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart. ”
Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants, otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.
~ Bryan Chapell
We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus’ name to our prayers.
Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.
Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance, we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.
