Some awesome words on prayer...

As we get ready to finish our six weeks of prayer this Sunday called "Thunder" I want you to hear some awesome words on prayer quoted from S.M. Lockridge.

I will add no comments. It's awesome.

"Now prayer is man's job. That's the only unending obligation that our Lord has given to men. He did not say that men ought to always work, men ought to always play, but men ought to always to pray. Pray for your personal life. Pray when you are successful, lest you become selfish. Pray when you are in sorrow, lest you become cynical. Pray when you are in prosperity, lest you become proud. Pray when you are in material poverty, lest you become spiritually poor, for that is the worst kind of poverty. In sin, man declares his or her independence of God. In prayer, we declare our dependence on God. Now prayer is perplexingly paradoxical. That is, you have to have pray in order to pray. When the disciples saw how lacking they were in prayer, they prayed. Notice that the disciples did not ask Jesus to teach them how to preach, or to teach them how to work miracles or to be wise, they said, Lord, teach us how to pray. Nobody offers a course in prayer, simply because there is only one teacher and that is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Some people think that prayer is a monologue and you do all the talking. Some people talk to the Lord like he has no idea what is happening in this world, we talk to the Lord like we need to tell him what to do, when to do it and Lord, right now, and some people talk to the Lord like they are picketing the throne of grace. Like the Lord is reluctant to answer, and you have to bombard his throne with prayer in order to get in there. We call him loud, and long, Lord, come on now! We want you to go here and go yonder, do this and do this, and on the double. But prayer is not just a monologue where you do all the talking. Prayer has got to be a dialogue. You have to wait and let him talk to you. It is far better for us to hear what the Lord has to say than for Him to hear what he has to say." - S.M. Lockridge from the sermon "That's My King"

Here is the whole sermon - over an hour long:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BhI4JKACUs&feature=related

See you Sunday!

Pastor Kris