Over the last few days I was one of 4000 people from 40 countries attending the Global Atheist convention (GAC) in Melbourne.
GAC was simply fascinating as people like Richard Dawkins, Peter Singer, Laurence Krauss and Geoffrey Robertson took to the stage.
If you are interested to read more check on my purpose-created blog: http://christianatheist51.blogspot.com.au/. But make sure you also check in over the next week as I add some more reflective pieces.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
What to pray for
I was praying about various things this morning.
With some things it was easy to know what to ask.
Thus, I am due to give some Bible talks at a camp over the next few days and so I prayed that God would send his Spirit to work through me in faithful preaching and to work in the hearers for effective hearing.
Again I prayed for some unconverted people that I know and the prayer was easy: that God will being them to see their need of Jesus, to know that that can come to Jesus and that he will bring them to Jesus.
Yet again I prayed for my missionary brother: that he will be protected (he is in a dangerous area), that he will be well-used and that he will know contentment and fulfillment.
But then I started praying about some other things. And realised that I didn't know what to ask. And then it occurred to me: I don't need to know what to ask in order to pray about them. For God knows. How easy: I just had to mention the situation and to ask God to do what is best for himself and the people involved.
Why do we make prayer so difficult?
With some things it was easy to know what to ask.
Thus, I am due to give some Bible talks at a camp over the next few days and so I prayed that God would send his Spirit to work through me in faithful preaching and to work in the hearers for effective hearing.
Again I prayed for some unconverted people that I know and the prayer was easy: that God will being them to see their need of Jesus, to know that that can come to Jesus and that he will bring them to Jesus.
Yet again I prayed for my missionary brother: that he will be protected (he is in a dangerous area), that he will be well-used and that he will know contentment and fulfillment.
But then I started praying about some other things. And realised that I didn't know what to ask. And then it occurred to me: I don't need to know what to ask in order to pray about them. For God knows. How easy: I just had to mention the situation and to ask God to do what is best for himself and the people involved.
Why do we make prayer so difficult?
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