Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation by Carson D. A

Author:Carson, D. A. [Carson, D. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL087000
ISBN: 9781441226990
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-01-12T22:00:00+00:00

All of us recognize that some believers are gifted with a peculiar ministry of prayer. While William Carey is often referred to as “the father of modern missions,” it was his sister, bedridden for years, who spent hours each day interceding for the ministry of her brother and for others who were beginning to follow the trail he blazed. George Müller of Bristol was extraordinarily gifted in prayer.

Still, we have come far enough to recognize that we cannot justify our relative prayerlessness by saying that those who are peculiarly effective are more gifted than we. Wherever we stand in the spectrum of Christian maturation, we could do better than we do, and many of us could do much better. One of the most important steps we can take is to recognize where we are. We quietly confess that we are dangerously dry. Our knowledge of God is slight, and we long to pray with a greater sense of reality and a greater degree of fruitfulness. We want to learn how to pray.

Few of Paul’s prayers have greater potential to help us surmount the hurdles of spiritual dryness and lack of faith than the one in Philippians 1:9–11. It can help us to overcome our excuses for prayerlessness. Formally this is a short and simple prayer. For our purposes it may be helpful to think through what Paul prays for by breaking the prayer into three steps.

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