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Are our prayers powerful?
By: guest24 Date: May 16, 2020, 8:18 am
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There is a lot more about effective prayers we can talk about
beyond where this OP starts but we will start here anyway.
John 14:13-14 King James Version (KJV)
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that
the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
I see lots of people praying things that are 1. gross
generalizations, 2. covetous, 3. contrary to scripture, etc.
and yes, I have even caught myself doing it a few times. God
promises that if our prayers are in line with His name (His
will) it will be done. Yet many people wonder why we should
pray anyway...if everything we pray for in His name (His will)
is a yes, why are so many people questioning the need for prayer
if our prayers are consistent with His will? If our prayers are
prayers that will result in Him being glorified?
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One on One with John Starke on Having a Deeper Prayer Life
We need a deep, hidden life for a fruitful, public life.
Ed: Why a book on prayer? Have you noticed deficiencies in how
we are doing in the church in regards to prayer life?
John: We live in a performative age. “Performative
individualism” is how Sophie Gilbert describes our society,
where the performance of the self is more important than the
reality of it. The most obvious place this shows up is in social
media, where we curate our image to give the impression that we
are okay and that we’re successful.
But there are also forms of performative individualism in our
vocations, relationships, and even our families. Jesus warns
against this in “performing your righteousness before others” in
a kind of performative spirituality. The fruit of that is a
culture of hyper-insecurity, a lack of self-awareness, and deep
status anxiety.
We are likely all shaped by this culture in more subconscious
ways than we think.
The answer to this performative life is to have a regular,
hidden life with God. For many people, that’s intimidating.
Oftentimes, when we hear of a “deep prayer life,” they imagine
the one or two people in their church who are mature, or
pastors, or folks made of different spiritual stuff.
I wrote this book because the Bible imagines prayer to be a very
ordinary thing for very ordinary people. The whole first half of
the book is aimed at showing that a satisfying and vibrant
prayer life is for all who are in Christ.
Ed: What are some of the regular pathways and rhythms of a life
of prayer?
John: After we grasp that prayer is possible for us, we learn
the pathways. That’s the concern of the second half of the book,
where I look at six main disciplines: communion, mediation,
solitude, feasting and fasting, and corporate worship. These
aren’t complex, but ordinary things.
It’s not an overstatement to say that the most transformative
thing you can do is to begin to spend unhurried time with God on
a regular basis for the rest of your life. What I try to show in
the book is that it’s possible.
Ed: Who have you found to be key people in scripture who have
modeled what our prayer life should look like? How can we model
these patterns?
John: Jesus gives us a pattern of prayer in the Lord’s Prayer in
Matthew 6. That’s a good place to begin. But Jesus talks quite a
bit on prayer. He teaches us we ought to come to God like a
father who likes to give good gifts (Matt. 7:7-11); that we
ought to pray with faith (Mark 11:23-26); we ought to pray in
private (Mark 12:38-40); we ought to plead to God like a
persistent widow coming to a reluctant judge for justice or like
a tax collector longing for mercy (Luke 18).
But the prayer book of the church is the book of Psalms. Eugene
Peterson says somewhere that since the church’s beginning,
Christians have learned to pray by praying the Psalms each day.
The Psalms contain every human emotion.
They teach us how to pray when we are angry, desperate, joyful,
depressed, afflicted, and hopeful. They teach us how to feel or
what to say when our lives are falling apart or when we’ve just
been delivered.
The easiest way to allow the Psalms to shape your prayer life is
to read a psalm a day and ask how this psalm teaches me to talk
to God.
Ed: Let’s talk about prayer during these times of Covid-19 and
racial injustice. How do we press into prayer now?
John: Covid-19 has taken away a lot of the public and therefore
performative elements of our lives, leaving much of it hidden,
which can be strategic for our spiritual growth. It might be
helpful to imagine ourselves like a seed, buried in the ground.
So much happens to a seed, when buried. It dies, as Jesus says,
in John 12. But in doing so, it opens itself up to all the
resources of the soil and becomes something greater than it was.
But it had to be hidden to do so. I think there’s a lot to that
imagery that we haven’t been able to see and grasp until now.
With racial injustice, there’s a danger of performative justice.
In other words, right now, Christians are tempted to say the
right things on social media to ensure we are on the “right
side” or we don’t have any work to do on ourselves.
Then, once our culture is done being concerned about it, so are
we. Having right conclusions about racial injustice is one
thing, but to be working against it for only as long as the
culture is paying attention is worldliness. We will need
something deeper than “cultural support” to be people of
justice.
Justice, especially racial justice, is a long road that often
takes many hidden acts of sacrifice and suffering. So much is
needed that is unseen. That means we will need to know how to
work and pray in hidden ways. For many of us, it’s hard to even
imagine what that kind of life and work looks like. We need a
deep, hidden life for a fruitful, public life.
Ed Stetzer is executive director of the Wheaton College Billy
Graham Center, serves as a dean at Wheaton College, and
publishes church leadership resources through Mission Group. The
Exchange Team contributed to this article.
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