Note: Tips for Prayer is adapted from Richard Baxter’s Practical Religion, chapter 23. Richard Baxter was a prolific writer and a prominent pastor in the 1600s. The Practical Works of Richard Baxter is a treasure trove of almost 1,000 pages, covering many useful topics relating to Christian living.
1) Always come to God in the humility befitting a condemned sinner, but also in the faith and boldness befitting a son or daughter and a member of Christ’s body. Do nothing out of confidence in your own worthiness, but be as confident in every lawful request as if you saw your glorified Mediator interceding for you with His Father. Christ and His promises must be the foundation of all your confidence and hope.
2) When you are about to pray, stir up in your soul the most lively and serious belief in those unseen things which your prayers have respect to, and pray as if you saw them all–as if you saw God in His glory, and heaven and hell, the glorified and the damned, and Jesus Christ your Mediator interceding for you in the heavens.
Think about how you would pray if you saw these things with your eyes, and then strive to pray as if you had. Ask yourself, “Are they not as sure as if I saw them? Are they not made known by the Son and Spirit of God?”
Molly Evert has been writing and podcasting for Mentoring Moments since 2009. Happily married to David Evert, they have four sons (ages 8 to 16), one daughter (age 2) and they are eagerly expecting another daughter from China, via international adoption. You can also find her writing at CounterCultural Mom, CounterCultural School, and Visionary Womanhood.
Reading God’s Story Schedule today, 6/28/13: 2 Kings 12-13, 2 Chronicles 24.
6/29/13: 2 Kings 14-15, 2 Chronicles 25 -27.
6/30/13: Jonah 1 – 4.
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Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).
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