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our Lips by Cathy Vinson |
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As we are
all learning about what prayer is and means, these quotes have recently come my way and
seem to verbalize similar wisdom. They are confirming what can be the growing Relationship
and delight in what praying is all about.
"They tell me, Lord, that when I seem to be in speech with You, since but one voice
is heard, it's all a dream, one talker aping two. Sometimes, it is, yet not as they
conceive it. Rather, I seek in myself the things I hoped to say, but lo! my wells are dry.
Then, seeing me empty You forsake the listener's role and through my dumb lips breathe and
into utterance wake the thoughts I never knew. And thus You neither need reply nor can;
thus, while we seem two talkers, Thou are One forever and I no dreamer, but
Thy dream." C S Lewis in LETTERS TO MALCOLM
"God's people must pray before God Himself will rise up and work...Prayer is the
union of the believer's thought with the will of God. The prayer which a believer utters
on earth is but the voicing of the Lord's will in heaven. Prayer is not the expressing of
our wish for God to yield to our petition and fill up our selfish desire. It is not a
forcing of the Lord to change His will and perform what He is unwilling to do. No, prayer
is simply speaking out the will of God through the mouth of the believer..." Watchman
Nee in LET US PRAY
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