Title: Powerful Prayer (6)
Series: Ephesians 7
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 6:18-20
Nicholas Herman was born in France in 1605. he spent 18 years in the army and then served as aid to the treasurer of the king.
He was described as "an awkward fellow who broke everything."
He was over 50 years old when he entered a Monastery in Paris
to serve as a cook where for the next 30 years he faithfully served until he became blind. At the Monastery he took on the name of brother Lawrence.
In his book, The Practice of the Presence of God, he stressed the need to do everything, including kitchen work of washing the pots and pans which he disliked, for the love of God and therefore to achieve an attitude in which the presence of God was as real in work as it was in a time of prayer.
He wrote, "The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things,I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees in the prayer chapel.
I do nothing else but abide in His holy presence, and I do this by simple attentiveness and an habitual, loving turning of my eyes on Him. This I call a wordless and secret conversation between the soul and God which no longer ends."
He said that it took him 10 years to fully enter into the practicing of the presence of God in his everyday life. But he said, "There is nothing more pleasing and more full of delight than continual conversation with God."
Prayer needs to be a regular part of our everyday life, but even more than that prayer needs to part of our spiritual defense against the attacks of Satan in how he seeks to defeat or destroy you.
Our strength comes from God through the power of prayer.
Even though we have spiritual armor we need God's help.
Charles Hodge - "The Christian has no resources of strength in himself, and can only succeed only as he is aid ...
Series: Ephesians 7
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 6:18-20
Nicholas Herman was born in France in 1605. he spent 18 years in the army and then served as aid to the treasurer of the king.
He was described as "an awkward fellow who broke everything."
He was over 50 years old when he entered a Monastery in Paris
to serve as a cook where for the next 30 years he faithfully served until he became blind. At the Monastery he took on the name of brother Lawrence.
In his book, The Practice of the Presence of God, he stressed the need to do everything, including kitchen work of washing the pots and pans which he disliked, for the love of God and therefore to achieve an attitude in which the presence of God was as real in work as it was in a time of prayer.
He wrote, "The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things,I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees in the prayer chapel.
I do nothing else but abide in His holy presence, and I do this by simple attentiveness and an habitual, loving turning of my eyes on Him. This I call a wordless and secret conversation between the soul and God which no longer ends."
He said that it took him 10 years to fully enter into the practicing of the presence of God in his everyday life. But he said, "There is nothing more pleasing and more full of delight than continual conversation with God."
Prayer needs to be a regular part of our everyday life, but even more than that prayer needs to part of our spiritual defense against the attacks of Satan in how he seeks to defeat or destroy you.
Our strength comes from God through the power of prayer.
Even though we have spiritual armor we need God's help.
Charles Hodge - "The Christian has no resources of strength in himself, and can only succeed only as he is aid ...
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