Elijah's Prayer

Thank you to John Piper for recommending this message by Terry Virgo. Very powerful and encouraging insights on powerful, effective prayer. Please share this with others!

Elijah Prays For Rain from Adrian Warnock on Vimeo.

Elijah Prays Part Two from Adrian Warnock on Vimeo.

Quotes on Prayer

Really enjoying our community group on Prayer this summer @ Second Mile Church. Here are a couple of recent posts by Randy Alcorn on prayer that are WELL worth your time to read. They are a HUGE encouragement to me:

Link #1
Link #2

Belonging

I hesitate to post these words because they convict me incredibly... so I should probably post them! Pray for me, for all husbands and fathers, to live this out in a way that honors God and our families.

Some words from John Piper in reference to a cigarette billboard with the slogan, Where a Man Belongs:

"To hell with such lies! Where a man belongs is on his knees beside his wife, leading in prayer. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is in the driver's seat, leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God, seeking vision and direction for the family. Men, I challenge you in the name of Jesus Christ our King, be where you belong!"

Plea

Credit goes to John Piper & Desiring God Ministries for the following material:

This is a plea that all of you would build into your lives both personal devotions and purposeful study of God’s word.

Both:

Daily prayerful meditation seeking personal application of God’s word to your own heart and life.

And:

Regular study in a class or with a book where the (living or dead) teacher has seen more than you have and can give you insight in 30 minutes that might otherwise take you ten years to see.

The reason I plead for both is that without a book or a class about what some part of the Bible means and a teacher who is ahead of you, your devotions will probably flatten out at a low level of insight.

Year after year you will go over the same biblical ground and find it as perplexing as before. There will be little advance in understanding. This will tend to take the heart out of devotional reading, because the lack of growth cannot sustain the joy.

Seek out preaching, books, and classes which take you further in grasping what various books and texts in the Bible mean.