Praying in tune with the way God works
For wise people, how you pray for the soul is governed by how you believe God works. For example, if you believe that God changes people’s souls to make new correct decisions, then you will be asked to make this soul change through evangelism and teaching, but not everyone is careful about how to pray, they do not consider that a concept about the person of God is behind your prayers.
- So what I suggest is that we first learn to pray for the soul.
- Based on how the Bible expresses this kind of prayer.
- If we do.
- Our prayers will probably be good prayers.
- And in doing so we will learn how God works.
That’s how I pray for my soul, do I make these calls over and over again?For me, my wife, my children, our elders and pastors and our entire church. Beans and rice? From my life of prayer.
1. La first thing my soul needs is a penchation for God and His Word. Without it, nothing precious will happen in my life. I must want to know God, read His Word, approach him. Where’s that? This comes from God. Therefore, Psalm 119. 36 teaches us to pray: “Tilt my heart to your testimonies and not to greed. “
2. I need to keep my eyes open, so that when my inclination takes me to the Word, I see what it really says and not my own ideas Who opens the eyes of the heart?God does. Therefore, Psalm 119. 18 teaches us to pray, “Open my eyes, that I may contemplate the wonders of thy law. “
3. I also need my heart to light up with these wonders. I must see the glory of these wonders and not just the interesting facts. Who lights up the heart? God enlightens you. Therefore, Ephesians 1:18 teaches us to pray that the eyes of his heart may be “enlightened. “
4. I fear that my heart is not painfully fragmented and that parts of it remain in darkness, while other parts light up, so I long for my heart to be bound to God, where is the fulness of the heart and union with God?God comes from? Dioses. Es why Psalm 86. 11 teaches us to pray: “I will walk in your truth; will I join my heart to fear your name?”(Revised and Corrected Bible).
5. What I really expect from this involvement with the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, in response to my prayers, is that my heart is satisfied with God, not with the world Where does this satisfaction come from?It comes from God, so Psalm 90. 14 teaches us to pray, “Separate us in the morning with your goodness, that we may sing with joy and enjoy every day. “
6. No I want my happiness to be weak or weak, but strong and lasting, in the midst of the worst adversity, I want to be strong in joy and persevere in periods of trial, where does this vigour and perseverance come from?? They come from God. Therefore, Ephesians 3:16 teaches us to pray: “That, according to the richness of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened by power, by his Spirit in the inner man. “
7. No I want my strength in Christ to be fruitful only for me, but also for others. Obviously, “Is it more blessed to give than to receive?” (Acts 20. 35). Therefore, I want to produce good works and acts of love for others, so that the glory of God may be seen in my life and others may taste and see that the Lord is good. Who produces these works of love? God produces them. Therefore, Colossars 1:10 teaches us to pray: “To live worthily of the Lord?Bear fruit in all good deeds?”
8. Finally, so as not to miss the final goal, do I pray, day after day?Like some kind of flag that wraps all my prayers?Blessed be your name? (Matthew 6:9). Lord, make known your name, fear, love, appreciate, admire, worship and believe, for my life and my ministry.
All this, I pray in the name of Jesus, because God gives us these things only on the basis of the death of Jesus, who died for me and took away the wrath of God, that the Father would give me all things for free (Romans 8:32).
Lord, show us to pray, from start to finish, biblically and with a biblical perception of how you act in the world, show us yourself and how you act, that we may pray properly and show us to pray. correctly, so we can see how he acts.
Devotion of John Piper’s book Provai e Vede
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