GRACE CHURCH WELLINGTON
  • Home
  • 15 JUNE
  • DURING THIS WEEK
  • FIND US
  • GCW Sermons
  • Sermon Archive
  • BELIEFS
  • WHO WE ARE
  • BIBLE STUDY
  • FREE BIBLE
  • Need help?
  • Sermon Archive

Pray then …

2/3/2020

0 Comments

 
From a Guest Blogger

Pray then in this way … Your will be done …  Matthew 6:9,10

God’s sovereignty has sometimes felt to me like an impenetrable wall.  If what God wants to happen will happen, come what may, then why pray?  If the outcome of every situation is already determined then all my prayers and tears and pleading are meaningless and for nothing.   If every bad thing that happens and every good thing that doesn’t happen is God’s will then what’s to be done? What is there to say?

In a sermon series on the Lord’s prayer, John MacArthur warns against the danger of passive resignation as a response to the sovereignty of God.  This kind of fatalism is not something we see in the Bible.  The disciples in the storm cried out to God; Jonah, taking the consequences of his own sin, called out to God in his distress; Hannah poured out her sorrow before the Lord; Jesus pleaded with His Father to take the cup of suffering away. 

God’s sovereignty, rather than killing my motivation to pray, ought to be the greatest incentive to approach Him in prayer.  If God was not sovereign my prayers would be futile because He would be unable to act.  How could He change hearts, lives and circumstances or bring about events unless He ruled all things?    How could He bring life from death, or give peace in the storm, or hope in despair?  How could He possibly work all things together for my good and His glory?  

But I’m invited (and commanded) to come to the One whose power is limitless, who controls all things and even directs the thoughts and intentions of His enemies, the sovereign Lord of lords who has ordained prayer as one of the means by which His will is accomplished.  

1 Thessalonians 5:17  Pray without ceasing.
James 5:16b  The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 4:2b  You do not have because you do not ask. 

0 Comments

    Author

    Tim Wills
    plus
    Guest Bloggers

    Archives

    June 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    July 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    February 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    September 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    August 2015
    July 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • 15 JUNE
  • DURING THIS WEEK
  • FIND US
  • GCW Sermons
  • Sermon Archive
  • BELIEFS
  • WHO WE ARE
  • BIBLE STUDY
  • FREE BIBLE
  • Need help?
  • Sermon Archive