The Word to the World
In his book And the Place was Shaken, John Franklin tells the story of participating in a two-week evangelistic crusade in Mombasa, Kenya. God blessed their efforts tremendously, and people responded to the gospel en masse. Franklin recalls one particular interaction. He and two colleagues
Those with a big God are prone to have a pretty big prayer life. That is, those who believe God’s self-revelation will trust him and this trust will be revealed in their prayers.
We may have the erroneous idea that Christians should just know how to pray. Praying, we often say, is to the Christian as breathing is to a person. And since people don’t need to be taught how to breathe, why should we be taught to
To pray is to, literally, wish toward God. Corporate prayer is to wish toward God together. If we are together in, to, through, and for the gospel, we should gather together in and for prayer.