We are too much given to thinking of the Cross as something we have to get through; we get through it only in order to get to it. The Cross stands for one thing only for us---a complete and entire and absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is nothing in which this identification is realized more than in prayer.
Mat 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. Then why ask? The idea of prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray because we want answers, we will get get huffed with God. The answers come every time, but not always in the way we expect, and our spiritual huff shows a refusal to identify ourselves with Our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove God answers prayer; we are here to be living monuments of God's grace.
MORE OF THIS TO COME.......
Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with JESUS CHRIST. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God's gifts and God's works: but in all these separatly, yea, in all of them added together, he doth find such substantial delight as in the matchless person of Jesus Christ
Pastor Larry (Laurence)& Sabrina K. Gray welcome you to grow with us as we seek out daily what our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, would have us to do in serving Him in our daily lives.
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