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Labor for what you pray for: and think not that praying is all that you have to do, to get God's grace, any more than to get your food and raiment; but you must labor, and beg, for God's blessing thereon.
- Richard Baxter
Devotional Feelings
No doubt, devotional feelings were habitual in the hearts of our first parents. No doubt, they sent up, more formally, their morning and evening prayers; but more time is needed to daw off the thoughts from visible thigns, and to concentrate them on the great invisible Giver of existence. Short snatches of time ar enot sufficient to perform this noblest of all duties in a proper manner. A whole day, at certain periods, was needed, so that there might be time for the contemplation of divine things, and for the full and free exercises of devotion.
- A.A. Alexander
1 Peter 5:8-10 – A Warning & An Encouragement
Preached by Pastoral Intern Jason Anspach on 03/08/09
Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church
1 Peter 5:8-10 (NKJV)
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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Join us for prayer Wednesdays at 7 pm!
In all your prayers to God, consider how significant the name of Christ is in heaven. If you come in the sense of your own unworthiness, and desire alone to be accepted in Him, you shall not be slighted or neglected. If you send a child or a servant to a friend for a thing in your name, the request is yours; and he that denies child or servant, denies you. Jesus Christ has sent you in His name, Go ask in My name; so that in effect the request becomes Christ's request. God can no more deny your request in Christ's name than He can deny Christ Himself.
- Thomas Manton
Psalm 9 – A Psalm for the New Year: Conclusion
Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church
Psalm 9:17-20
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD,
That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah
Join us for prayer Wednesdays at 7pm!
We need not detract from the excellency of private devotions, to magnify the public prayers of the church. Both are necessary, and highly pleasing to God. Yet it is no wrong to the private devotions of a particular saint, to give the precedency to the public prayers of the church. God Himself tells us He "loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob," Ps. 87:2. No doubt the prayers which the faithful put up to heaven from under their private roofs were very acceptable unto Him; but, if a sain'ts single voice in prayer be so sweet to God's ear, much more the church choir - His saints' prayers in consort together. A father is glad to see any one of his children when he visits him, but much more when they come together: the greatest feast is when they all meet at his house. The public praise of the church are teh emblem of heaven itself, where all the angels and saints make but one consort.
- William Gurnall
A Natural Homage
Prayer is the natural homage due from the creature to his heavenly Father. Man ought to thank God for all good; it is the natural homage due from receiver to Giver. Man ought to confess all his sin and guilt; it is the natural homage due from sinfulness to sovereign holiness. Man ought to deprecate God's anger; it is the appropriate homage due from conscious guilt to power and righteousness. Man ought to praise God's perfection. Thus only can the moral intelligence God has created, pay to Him its tribute of intellectual service. Conceive of God as bestowing all the forms of good on man which his depndent nature needs, without requiring any homage of prayer from man as the means of its bestowal; and you will immediately have, man being such as he is (an active being), a system of practical atheism. Religion, relation between man and God, will be at an end. True, God would be related to man, but not man to God! Anamalous and guilty condition! No feeling of dependence, reverence, gratitude, wholesome fear, would find expression from the creature.
- R.L. Dabney
Prayer Meeting tonight @ 7pm – No Superfluous Labor
Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, for to You I will pray. - Psalm 5:1-2
Now in saying that he continually prayed unto God, herein [David] shows us what the manner is to pray well: that we should be constant to follow it, and not to be weary, not that God needs to be importunately urged, but it is to exercise our faith, and the better to try us, whether we seek all our felicity in Him or not. For it is so, that the Holy Scripture requires constancy in our prayers, especially and above all other things, and not to pray unto God this day, and quite forget Him tomorrow, but we must continue, if we will be heard. And lo wherein we must show ourselves to have trusted in God, that is, that although it seems to us that He has stopped His ears, yet for all that we must not cease to go continually unto Him, and pray unto Him an hundred times as much as we did before: knowing it to be no superfluous labor, when as we have thus prayed.
- John Calvin
The Lord’s Blessings in 2009!
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, because of Your righteous judgments. I am a companion of all who fear You, and of those who keep Your precepts. - Psalm 119:62-63
As if he should have said that the day was not sufficient enough for him, but that in the time of his quiet rest, he lifted up his mind into heaven to give thanks unto God. In this he signifieth that he continued praising of God without wearisomeness. Now then, if we rightly follow the example of David, we must not give God thanks when we think good, and when we shall have remembered Him once in fifteen days, or I know not when: or else when as it shall be for fashion's sake, as when the Bell ringeth to cause us to come to the Sermon. But it must be always, for we must both in the evening, and morning, and also at midnight, have our minds waking to give Him thanks.
- John Calvin
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