Prayer and Other "Deep Things"
Don't you just love it when people walk up to you and say “I'm praying for you?” I don't mean just when you ask it of them, but when they just say it.” Several people have done that to me recently (this was before my last blog). I have learned over the years that when you start thinking about someone a lot, the Lord is wanting you to pray for them. We tend to dismiss things like that as if we are only living in a physical world...as if our thinking and praying is merely a physical function. Jesus focused a lot on the heart in His teaching. Our heart is where the physical meets the spiritual...where our spirit interfaces with a physical brain and the mystery of all of that is contained. “Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouths speaks,” He says. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he,” says the Proverbs. Do we speak with our brain or from our spirit? The answer, I think is both. What is thinking anyway? I don't know if we will ever understand that connection of physical and spiritual, that “incarnation”. Perhaps it is one of the “deep things” of God. Furthermore, what does it mean that “His Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are children of God?” How does He “convict us” of sin, as Jesus promised, and what is the mechanism of the conscience? How is He able to “help us in our weakness“ or help us “to will and to do” His purpose. How does He give us boldness like Paul, in times of need? How is He able to do what we cannot do- change our “want to”...our hearts?
Just some thoughts in my brain today (or my spirit or my heart......)
The men's retreat is going awesome... wow, nothing like a couple hundred men singing, testifying, praying together!
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