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Distractions During Prayer

Posted in Herbert McCrabe, Prayer, Quotes on December 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Herbert McCabe (1926-2001)

Trace your distraction back to the real desires it comes from and pray about these.

When you are praying for what you really want you will not be distracted. People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

– Herbert McCabe, English theologian

God, Christ and Us, pg. 187 (a compilation of twenty-seven sermons of the famous English theologian Herbert McCabe London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005). Quoted in Philip Yancey’s book, Prayer (Kindle Locations 4039-4041). Zondervan. Kindle Edition

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Praying and Getting

Posted in Philip Yancey, Prayer, Quotes, tagged , on December 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »

…how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? — Matthew 7:11

… how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? — Luke 11:13

Philip Yancy


We pray for what God wants to give us, which may turn out to be good gifts or it may be the Holy Spirit. (From God’s viewpoint there is no better response to persistent prayer than the gift of the Holy Spirit, God’s own self.)

Like Peter, we may pray for food and get a lesson in racism; like Paul we may pray for healing and get humility.

We may ask for relief from trials and instead get patience to bear them.

We may pray for release from prison and instead get strength to redeem the time while there.

Asking, seeking, and knocking does have an effect on God, as Jesus insists, but it also has a lasting effect on the asker-seeker-knocker.

— Yancey, Philip (2008-09-02). Prayer (Kindle Locations 3330-3340). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

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What God Gets

Posted in Christ, Faith, Michael Cave, Personal, Quotes, tagged on November 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. — Revelation 7:9-10

A pastor friend used to say,

“When it is all over, the only thing God get out of all of this is the people” — Pastor Michael Cave

Churches and institutions can be helpful, companies can provide good service, countries can protect their people — the good ones should be supported but they will all eventually fade away.

What shall endure are individuals touched for and by Christ.

— fritz

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