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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
"A Time of Spiritual Tragedy"
"Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night
praying to God." (v.12)
-- For reading & meditation: Luke 6:12-19
Another issue in today's Church which makes the need for revival
urgent is the way in which the Church, generally speaking, has become
more activity oriented than prayer oriented. There can be little
doubt that today's Church has learned a good deal about how to
organise events, how to get the best results from advertising, how to
research and target specific objectives, how to identify trends and
make predictions based on those trends ' and so on. What it is not so
good at is teaching people how to pray - to pray powerfully for God
to make His mighty presence known in the world. I would point out
again that I am speaking generally, for I know there will be many
reading these lines who come from churches which are exceptions to
what I am saying. Now do not hear me speaking in condemning tones of
the prowess of today's Church in the areas I have mentioned. It is
good to research and study underlying principles, such as, for
example, what makes for effective evangelism or how churches grow.
There can be little doubt that the study of these things has greatly
contributed to the life and development of the Church in this
generation. Here, however, is the problem: it is so easy for us to
become satisfied by our successes in the field of study and research
that our satisfaction deadens our desire and robs us of a sense of
need to see God work in a sovereign and extraordinary way through
revival. We are in a time of spiritual tragedy when our activity
becomes a blockage to His activity. Only prayer can keep our eyes
fully upon Him.
PRAYER:
O Father, forgive us that we so easily let our successes move our
focus away from what You can do, to what we can do. Bring us to our
knees - metaphorically and literally. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Prov. 6:1-11; Eph.5:14; Rom. 13:11; 1 Thess. 5:6
1. What can we learn from the ant?
2. What is the danger of overactivity?
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