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Prayer Is for God's GLory
GRACE. PRAYER IS FOR GOD'S GLORY We see that prayer is for God's glory. Paul says that when we pray through Christ "our Amen [is] to the glory of God." "Amen" is the great affirmation that God is the bountiful Giver and I am the needy receiver. Amen affirms God's inexhaustible future grace to respond to our need in the very best way for his glory and for our good. Prayer has the wonderful capacity to highlight our emptiness and God's fullness at the same time. It is wonderfully suited to express our inadequacy and God's all-sufficiency. When prayer looks away from our flaws and deficiencies to God for his future grace, he gets the glory he deserves and we get the good we need." --- John Piper, from FUTURE GRACE, Chapter 7 "Looking Back for the Sake of the Future," Multnomah Books, 1995, p. 107. John Piper is pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Have a great week, Chip Stam |