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Five
young college students were spending a Sunday in London, so they went
to hear the famed C.H. Spurgeon preach. While waiting for the doors to
open, the students were greeted by a man who asked, "Gentlemen, let me
show you around. Would you like to see the heating plant of this
church?" They were not particularly interested, for it was a hot day in
July. But they didn't want to offend the stranger, so they consented.
The young men were taken down a stairway, a door was quietly opened,
and their guide whispered, "This is our heating plant." Surprised, the
students saw 700 people bowed in prayer, seeking a blessing on the
service that was soon to begin in the auditorium above. Softly closing
the door, the gentleman then introduced himself. It was none other than
Charles Spurgeon.
Fools don't pray. They affirm .neither" the reality of
God nor the possibility of communication. They write books entitled God Is Dead and take God's name in vain without regret and are more embarrassed by prayer than helped by it.
A good prayer is a gift. It says, "Here am I, Lord; take me." It says, "I sinned; forgive me." Or, "I am weak; make me strong"; or, "I am weary; give me peace." It says, "Thank You," and admits divine help, or says, "Help me," and admits human need. Prayer is the one place independent man seeks dependence.
The
Bible tells you how to pray: "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into
thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which
is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee
openly." Matthew 6:
The man who does not truly pray in private has no right to pray in public. It would be refreshing if sometime a church member refused a request to pray by saying, "I haven't prayed enough in private recently."
When Jesus suggests a closet, He is not referring to walk-ins or fit-ins. He is referring to solitude. It can be your car or the back porch--or walking down the street alone beneath the stars. But
it must be a place where it is just you and God, where it is quiet and
there will be no interruption. And it must be regular. Architects may
design places for prayer, but only men make them so.
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"When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
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