LISTENING BEFORE YOU SPEAK (1 OF 8)
Scripture: Luke 10:38-42
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Listening Before You Speak (1 of 8)
Series: Talking to God
Jonathan McLeod
Luke 10:38-42
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day (Ps. 119:97).
A ONE-SIDED CONVERSATION
Have you ever been in a conversation in which the other person wouldn't stop talking? It's not very enjoyable. You want to speak, but you never get a chance!
Prayer is talking to God. But God doesn't want us to do all the talking. He wants to speak to us. And how does God speak to us? Through the Bible (also know as the word of God).
[Read Luke 10:38-42.]
STRUGGLING TO PRAY
Many Christians struggle to take the time to pray. Maybe we don't take the time to pray because we underestimate the importance of prayer. We will usually make time for things that are important to us.
Maybe we don't take the time to pray because we're very busy. D. A. Carson, ''If you are too busy to pray, you are too busy. Cut something out.'' We believe that food is essential, and we make time for it everyday. If we believe that prayer is essential to the Christina life, we must make time for it.
Maybe we have good intentions to take time to pray, but we never end up doing much praying. We are like the disciples Peter, James, and John. Jesus said to them, ''''Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak'' (Matthew 26:41).
It's probably a good idea to designate a quiet time and place. Jesus often withdrew to ''desolate places'' to pray (Luke 5:16).
PRAYER IS NOT A ONE-SIDED CONVERSATION
Before we speak to God, God wants to speak to us. God speaks to us when we read and medi-tate on his word. Meditate? J. I. Packer writes, ''We have some idea, perhaps, what prayer is, but what is meditation? Well may we ask, for meditation is a lost art today, and Christian people suffer grievously from their ignorance of the practice. Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and appl ...
Series: Talking to God
Jonathan McLeod
Luke 10:38-42
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day (Ps. 119:97).
A ONE-SIDED CONVERSATION
Have you ever been in a conversation in which the other person wouldn't stop talking? It's not very enjoyable. You want to speak, but you never get a chance!
Prayer is talking to God. But God doesn't want us to do all the talking. He wants to speak to us. And how does God speak to us? Through the Bible (also know as the word of God).
[Read Luke 10:38-42.]
STRUGGLING TO PRAY
Many Christians struggle to take the time to pray. Maybe we don't take the time to pray because we underestimate the importance of prayer. We will usually make time for things that are important to us.
Maybe we don't take the time to pray because we're very busy. D. A. Carson, ''If you are too busy to pray, you are too busy. Cut something out.'' We believe that food is essential, and we make time for it everyday. If we believe that prayer is essential to the Christina life, we must make time for it.
Maybe we have good intentions to take time to pray, but we never end up doing much praying. We are like the disciples Peter, James, and John. Jesus said to them, ''''Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak'' (Matthew 26:41).
It's probably a good idea to designate a quiet time and place. Jesus often withdrew to ''desolate places'' to pray (Luke 5:16).
PRAYER IS NOT A ONE-SIDED CONVERSATION
Before we speak to God, God wants to speak to us. God speaks to us when we read and medi-tate on his word. Meditate? J. I. Packer writes, ''We have some idea, perhaps, what prayer is, but what is meditation? Well may we ask, for meditation is a lost art today, and Christian people suffer grievously from their ignorance of the practice. Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and appl ...
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