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Prayer: Bearing the World as Jesus Did
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"Christians are troubled by the spiritual indifference and moral degeneracy of our day. Some resort to a kind of religious escapism, interacting only with like-minded believers and dreaming of a spectacular deliverance in the Apocalypse.
"Yet God calls us to respond—not by escaping from the world, but by interceding for its deliverance. In fact, Scripture says that intercession is the life purpose of every servant of God.
"The Bible’s accounts of intercessory prayer are truly amazing. They lead us to wonder: can our prayers help to redeem the world?
"Dr. Kinlaw says yes. He affirms that God still hears and answers the prayers of his people. Here he leads us through a careful consideration of the burden-bearing work of God and his people, challenging us to examine the depth of our own relationship with God."
"Christians are troubled by the spiritual indifference and moral degeneracy of our day. Some resort to a kind of religious escapism, interacting only with like-minded believers and dreaming of a spectacular deliverance in the Apocalypse.
"Yet God calls us to respond—not by escaping from the world, but by interceding for its deliverance. In fact, Scripture says that intercession is the life purpose of every servant of God.
"The Bible’s accounts of intercessory prayer are truly amazing. They lead us to wonder: can our prayers help to redeem the world?
"Dr. Kinlaw says yes. He affirms that God still hears and answers the prayers of his people. Here he leads us through a careful consideration of the burden-bearing work of God and his people, challenging us to examine the depth of our own relationship with God."
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105 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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May 3, 2017
Another life-changing book by Kinlaw. It is books like these that make you yearn for God's fullness to invade every nook and cranny in your life. I underlined so many parts in my book but I hesitate to quote them here because they will lose the meaningful context. The chapters are each a well-crafted whole.
One of the most moving chapters tells about the moment when he is sitting by the bed of his wife, Elsie, who has just passed into eternity. He writes:
"I watched Elsie fight to live and grapple with the questions of death and dying. One day she was ready to go to heaven and wondered why Christ did not take her there. The next day she would be full of hope for recovery and could even talk about our future together. During those months, I came to the conclusion that human beings are made for life. Something within us insists, rationally or not, that death is an alien force that does not really belong in our bodies. The God who made us is the God of the living and all life comes from him. Indeed, physical death entered his world contrary to his will. I thought, God made us for life because he made us for himself, and he is life. He wants us to be a part of his eternal existence. And I worshiped in spite of my circumstances."
I am truly thankful to his granddaughter, Cricket Albertson, for putting these talks into book form.
One of the most moving chapters tells about the moment when he is sitting by the bed of his wife, Elsie, who has just passed into eternity. He writes:
"I watched Elsie fight to live and grapple with the questions of death and dying. One day she was ready to go to heaven and wondered why Christ did not take her there. The next day she would be full of hope for recovery and could even talk about our future together. During those months, I came to the conclusion that human beings are made for life. Something within us insists, rationally or not, that death is an alien force that does not really belong in our bodies. The God who made us is the God of the living and all life comes from him. Indeed, physical death entered his world contrary to his will. I thought, God made us for life because he made us for himself, and he is life. He wants us to be a part of his eternal existence. And I worshiped in spite of my circumstances."
I am truly thankful to his granddaughter, Cricket Albertson, for putting these talks into book form.
April 25, 2013
Another amazing read from Dr. Kinlaw... It bears the weight of a life lived in remarkable intimacy with Jesus. In its pages, I recognized the echos of LET'S START WITH JESUS, joining in with the call of THE MIND OF CHRIST and the wisdom of PREACHING IN THE SPIRIT. All this in a surprisingly simply, though wonderfully profound, book calling us to biblical prayer.
July 29, 2015
This is a wonderful book that guided me on a path of greater understanding of what God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit want in a relationship with me and how beautiful and meaningful that can be. There are no formulas here. Dr. Kinlaw writes from personal experience of a deeper and dependent relationship upon God, that spills out into all our relationships as Christ's witnesses on earth.
There are so many treasures in this easy to read, short book. I especially liked his imagery on page 36 "God's children were made to image their Father so that when he looked at them he could see a likeness of himself in his family members. The children were to image the Father so faithfully that when they looked at each other, they could see the family resemblance in one another. That family resemblance is seen in agape love, which is being willing to lay down one's life for another. With Eve's and Adam's sin, that divine image was lost. Now the dominating characteristic of God's creatures became self-interest, which was the antithesis of the nature of the One who made, sustained and would later die for them."
There are 11 short chapters so I read a chapter a day and then pondered and prayed over the powerful wisdom packed into each chapter. I hope to use it as a study with some friends soon.
There are so many treasures in this easy to read, short book. I especially liked his imagery on page 36 "God's children were made to image their Father so that when he looked at them he could see a likeness of himself in his family members. The children were to image the Father so faithfully that when they looked at each other, they could see the family resemblance in one another. That family resemblance is seen in agape love, which is being willing to lay down one's life for another. With Eve's and Adam's sin, that divine image was lost. Now the dominating characteristic of God's creatures became self-interest, which was the antithesis of the nature of the One who made, sustained and would later die for them."
There are 11 short chapters so I read a chapter a day and then pondered and prayed over the powerful wisdom packed into each chapter. I hope to use it as a study with some friends soon.
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