How to Do Life
Jerry Watts
James 5:12-18
• It is likely that I have mentioned the name Jack Taylor several times since I have been here. I had the great privilege of meeting him in 1974 at Ridgecrest. He had been a Southern Baptist Pastor for years and had now resigned for an itinerant ministry as an author and preacher. For years I have read his books, listened to his tapes, and driven miles to hear him in person. He might be an absentee mentor for me about spiritual things.
• That said, because of his ever-growing walk with Christ, he embraced some theologies about the Holy Spirit which, at the very least, caused leading Southern Baptist’s preachers to ‘raise their eyebrows’ and at worse, have caused those people to dis-avow him as a Southern Baptist.
• Here’s what I know about him, ‘‘I never heard him speak when I didn’t sense God’s anointing on him.’’ With all due respect, I tend to listen to anyone whom I sense is filled with the Holy Spirit of God.
• In 1977, Jack wrote a book on prayer with bears the title of this message, In this book he tells us that, even at our best, we are limited in our human experience. Yet in prayer we can pray now and affect the ‘then’, we can pray ‘here’ and impact the ‘there,’ and we can pray in ‘time’ which will affect ‘eternity.’ That is the limitless reach of prayer.
• Jack goes on to tell us that in prayer we experience worship, work, and warfare. Without prayer we can never worship. The shortest way to the throne of grace is in prayer and brokenness. It is also work. Oswald Chambers says, ‘‘Prayer does not prepare you for the greater work, it is the greater work.’’ The prophet Haggai records the divine question given to us by Jehovah HIMSELF, ‘‘Is it really time to not do the work of God while you live in luxurious houses?’’ Work in prayer is most productive. Finally, Jack tells us that prayer is warfare. The war we are in goes on whether or not we engage. The enemy does not quit because we refuse to figh ...
Jerry Watts
James 5:12-18
• It is likely that I have mentioned the name Jack Taylor several times since I have been here. I had the great privilege of meeting him in 1974 at Ridgecrest. He had been a Southern Baptist Pastor for years and had now resigned for an itinerant ministry as an author and preacher. For years I have read his books, listened to his tapes, and driven miles to hear him in person. He might be an absentee mentor for me about spiritual things.
• That said, because of his ever-growing walk with Christ, he embraced some theologies about the Holy Spirit which, at the very least, caused leading Southern Baptist’s preachers to ‘raise their eyebrows’ and at worse, have caused those people to dis-avow him as a Southern Baptist.
• Here’s what I know about him, ‘‘I never heard him speak when I didn’t sense God’s anointing on him.’’ With all due respect, I tend to listen to anyone whom I sense is filled with the Holy Spirit of God.
• In 1977, Jack wrote a book on prayer with bears the title of this message, In this book he tells us that, even at our best, we are limited in our human experience. Yet in prayer we can pray now and affect the ‘then’, we can pray ‘here’ and impact the ‘there,’ and we can pray in ‘time’ which will affect ‘eternity.’ That is the limitless reach of prayer.
• Jack goes on to tell us that in prayer we experience worship, work, and warfare. Without prayer we can never worship. The shortest way to the throne of grace is in prayer and brokenness. It is also work. Oswald Chambers says, ‘‘Prayer does not prepare you for the greater work, it is the greater work.’’ The prophet Haggai records the divine question given to us by Jehovah HIMSELF, ‘‘Is it really time to not do the work of God while you live in luxurious houses?’’ Work in prayer is most productive. Finally, Jack tells us that prayer is warfare. The war we are in goes on whether or not we engage. The enemy does not quit because we refuse to figh ...
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