Enduring Christianity
Discussing the joys AND challenges of sincerely following Jesus. Salvation in Jesus is a gift, but Jesus warns us of the temptations that can lure us away. Jesus said "Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my word endures forever." and "Only those who endure until the end will be saved." If your goal is ONLY to get to heaven then maybe despite your good intentions you're heading in the wrong direction? Maybe the direction is faithfully FOLLOWING Jesus and the result is Him? No, this is not a works based podcast! No, this is not an, "I go to Heaven because I earned it." This is a conversation about loving Jesus because he deserves my all.
Enduring Christianity
The Prayer of Isaac
Throughout the Bible there are many examples of prayers recorded for us to learn how to pray. There are prayers of pleading, direction, forgiveness, blessing and confession. But, there is no more of an important prayer than to pray for the Fathers will to be done. “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10).
Ultimately, life is about knowing and fulfilling God's will. This was the example of Jesus, to do the will of the Father. This is the purpose of the Holy Spirit, to empower us to fulfill God's will. Apart from God we can do nothing, and this is why we pray, “your will be done.”
The role prayer plays in the reality of fulfilling an active faith in God's will is the reality of our participation in a personal relationship with God. We were made to be in fellowship with God that we might know Him and there is no greater way to be in relationship with Him than through the way He designed it to happen- through His word and in personal prayer with Him,
In this episode we continue our series with the life of Isaac and in particular the specific prayer he prayed for God's will to be done. What we learn from Isaac's life is that a prayer for God's will to be done is to become a participant in Gods will being done. Through prayer we are in fellowship with God's spirit and it is in fellowship with Him that we learn to trust in Him and the way He chooses for His will to take place.
