Patterson on Prayer, chapter 1
Quotes from chapter 1 of Ben Patterson's Deepening Your Conversation with God.When the excitement died down enough for them to ask the question, his disciples said, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” Jesus’ answer is as devastating as it is brief. He said, “This kind can come out only by prayer. ( Mark 9:29 ). They had to pray to drive the demon out! What on earth were they doing before Jesus walked up? Whatever it was, clearly they weren’t praying. They were trying to cast out demons without prayer!...Churches can run without prayer. Whole denominations can run without prayer. The question is: Is what they’re doing worth doing if they can do it without prayer? I don’t think so...Do we really believe that programs and committees and ecclesiastical exertions and pronouncements are going to change that? Jesus doesn’t...Only by prayer."
"The pastor who claims to be too busy to pray is really a lazy person. In busyness, he or she is procrastinating, avoiding the real work of prayer."
"Perhaps one reason God delays his answers to our prayers is because he knows we need to be with him far more than we need the things we ask of him. I include myself among those who have prayed for years for someone or something with no apparent answer or resolution. But we can say that as we prayed long and hard, we found something we may not have been looking for when we began to pray, something better than the thing we asked of God. We found his incomparable presence. The praying can often be greater than the things we pray for."
Ben Patterson
Deepening Your Conversation With God
Deepening Your Conversation With God
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