Monthly Archives: May 2009

Got this from this site:

ahah… God is truly moving!!!

I’m all for feeding celebrity frenzies…

but then again…

I recollect someone saying this:

No one is truly a star. The only “star” that truly exists and is worth praising is Jesus Christ!

Amen.

an A.W. Tozer devotional

QUESTION: When we end our prayer “Thy will be done,” and do not know God’s will, have we not destroyed faith and confidence that our prayer will be answered?

If we do not know God’s will about a request how can we possibly have confidence that the request will be granted? Confidence under such conditions would be sheer presumption. On the other hand, when He has made His will plain to us, why should we fear to say “Thy will be done”? The only valid prayer is that made in the will of God, either to know that will or because we know it. Until we know it we do well to cover our ignorance with the blanket of meek submission.

True prayer is not an effort to persuade God to do our will; it is rather an effort to move into the powerful will of God so as to be swept along by it. The man who loves and understands the will of God will not want anything outside of it.

Our hesitancy to add “Thy will be done” to our prayers could arise from an honest fear lest we make the words a hiding place for unbelief; or it could reveal an unconscious determination to get what we want whether God wills it or not.

When I hear a preacher condemn the practice of ending our prayers with the words “Thy will be done” I have an uneasy feeling that he may be unintentionally upbraiding the One who once used those words in the Garden of Gethsemane. For myself, I have no ambition to pray better than He did.