How many times i have put my desire first, which prevent me from shining forth for Christ. Since, It is not for us to ignite the flame or supply the oil. All we have to do is to keep our lamp clean and bright, to guard against anything that may obstruct the outshining of the Love and Life of God through the soul.

O God, help me to shun from every appearance of evil, especially my weakness I know i cannot overcome. O Christ, may fire of Thy Divine Love burn up in my heart; help us to shine forth as lights in this dark world.

It is the Lord’s delight to give us what we ask of Him in prayer. Like David, we should all pray, “O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth” (Psalm 54:2). If Christians did not believe in the efficacy of prayer, there would be no reason for us to ask anything of God. He is the one who tells us that we can have confidence that our prayers ascend to Him. “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him” (1 John 5:14,15). While as Christians we pay lip-service to the superlatives in that sentence (“whatever” and “anything”), how often do we really believe it?

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Click Here to listen:  An opening prayer by Paul Washer (Youth Evangelical Meeting 2002)

“Father, father I am so small, and so pitiful in so many ways, you know Lord…don’t dear God, should false fire be the only thing ever place on your altar, could fire come down from heaven, amidst all the noise and clamors and activities could fire come down from heaven, can these dead bones live, you know Lord,  and your sovereignty I pray and beg before the throne of God that you will be gracious to us, that you will open up hearts and minds…Lord we can’t wait for them to open up theirs, they never will, open their heart and mind and cause them to seek biblical truth, breath on them, grant them repentance, grant them faith, bring them into your kingdom Lord, for your own glory, for the sake of your own great name, do these thing.  …. let it be so Lord, so no men will take credit for it, so no man will lay his hand on the ark if he did will strike down dead…  O Lord move among us, please, for we have no other hope… these children have no other hope except you move.”

Click Here to listen: A Closing prayer of Paul Tripp from his sermon “Rescuing Love”, 15 June 2008