пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 06.11. 2016 Мысли о молитве - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about how we can have more inspiration in our prayer lives. First I want to ask a question: How do we imagine the action of God? Of course, we know that God is Sovereign, that He acts at His own discretion and no one can stop His will, but is that all? Doesn’t the Lord Himself reveal to us in the Bible that we are also included in this process! How? These are His words, He describes Himself, saying that He is God, Who confirms the word of His servant and brings into fulfillment the saying of His messengers (Isa. 44:26). And many times there, in Scripture, it is said and described how God makes His determinations through the words spoken by people according to His will. This means we recognize and believe that the Lord acts in history in this way, but when it comes to our personal history, about our prayers, then we suddenly begin to think something like this: “I am not the person through whom God can act.” " Our prayers seem “insignificant” to us, the interests that we invest in them may look petty in our eyes (from the point of view of eternity) and even selfish. But doesn't God use "petty" interests when He does His will? Were Saul's missing donkeys really significant? But they served as a reason for a trip to the Prophet, who announced to him that the Lord had chosen him to be the king of Israel! Didn’t the prophet Elijah’s command to make unleavened bread for himself from the last handful of flour seem selfish, but when the widow did this, God gave her food and saved her from starvation. I say that we often judge our own prayer potential pejoratively and I believe that the Lord wants to establish a different attitude in us because He gave the church exactly this purpose: My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations Isa. 56:7. We are called to see and believe that prayer is not a religious tradition, not a ritual, but a creative act and the most important work of the church. And of course, the Lord uses some of our life situations so that we “get involved” in prayer; He wants to reveal to us what it means to be His co-workers, and our human experiences help us in this, as Ap says. Jacob: If any of you suffers, let him pray. Jacob 5:13. Notice that here the Apostle literally says that we begin to pray precisely when we are “pushed” and this is not said as a condemnation, but for encouragement, that this is exactly what we need to do in order to fulfill God’s will. Of course, there is nothing good in the fact that David committed adultery with Bathsheba, but it was from this destructive and tragic event that the very 50th psalm of repentance was born, with the words from which Christians all over the earth repent and believe in God’s mercy to this day! That's why Ap says. Paul: We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Rome. 8:28. We need to see that literally every event in our life, every experience, even the most joyless, can and should be transformed into prayer. And it is precisely this attitude, this “vision” of events and experiences that leads to our developing a prayer life. If we “merely live,” but our events and related experiences are not transformed into prayer, then we inevitably become emotionally overloaded and carry this, in the language of the Bible, “an unbearable burden,” instead of giving it in prayer to the One Who is One can bear it. We need to admit that our life is unbearable for us, this is exactly what the Lord is leading us to, and if we do not learn to give Him our worries and experiences, then they will simply crush us! We live in a huge number of unknown and unpredictable circumstances, and the further events develop, the more obvious it is that there is nothing and no one who could guarantee us some kind of stability. Today we are relatively healthy, relatively prosperous, our needs are mostly covered, but no one except God knows what awaits us tomorrow. When we went to Ukraine, I somehow very keenly felt that on this trip we needed God’s protection, His protection. It was like walking on thin ice that was cracking under you. And of course this encouraged us to pray, to believe and to be careful. And when we returned safely, I suddenly realized that here, where I feel “peace and security,” there are no guarantees other than God’s protection. I realized that we get used to the fact that we are “fine” and stop praying for our own lives, and this is not the action of God’s spiritual power, which in the Bible is called the “spirit of slumber.” Therefore, the Apostles call on the church to stay awake, so as not to get used to this self-soothing “everything is fine,” because this state is the result of someone’s prayers, and even if now everything is really good, then we must continue to “store up oil” and learn about Do not worry or care about tomorrow, but pray for it. Can we feel anxious about certain people or events? I think this happens to us all the time, only since ?6?