I was reading through this book given to me by my friend Josh.
The following thoughts were helpful:
"Thy typical evangelistic prayer focuses on praying for the lost. This is certainly appropriate, but the clear emphasis in Scripture is to pray in a different direction. Jesus' burden for the lost multitude resulted in His instruction to pray that the Lord would send laborers into the harvest field (Matthew 9:38). In His deep burden for the unsaved He commanded prayer for the saints instead of the sinner. Likewise Paul requested prayer for both the opportunity to witness (Colossians 4:3) and the courage to present the gospel (Ephesians 6:19-20). To pray for our lost friends is a naturally loving instinct, but it is God's Word that guides us how to do so."
Good Observation!
2 comments:
Someone prayed just that tonight at our prayer meeting at church. WOW.
Good focus. Glad you liked the book!
Dr. Thrasher is definitely on the short list to speak at my church when I'm a pastor.
I like the new layout. One suggestion: If you're going to list your email address on your blog, you might want to replace the "@" symbol with something like "[at]" or "[insert at symbol here]". You'll probably start getting spam if you leave it like it is.
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