12. We must pray more for those who need to know Jesus.
A statement of the bleeding obvious? Perhaps. But warrants inclusion because it is just so important and I fear there is actually precious little of it going on.
We are engaged in a spiritual battle, building a kingdom not of this world. If we fail to pray our problems are (at least) two-fold: (1) if the Holy Spirit is not at work nothing of eternal consequence is going to be achieved, and (2) if we don’t realise that this is the case we are self-deluded.
Or failure to pray could be an indicator that we are not actually engaged in the battle, and not seeking God’s kingdom, but rather are waylaid entirely with the things of this world.
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For every disciplined Prayer Book Churchman (1662), he or she prays or sings this with the Deus Misereatur, or Psalm 67, for the response to the NT lection.
ReplyDelete"...That thy way may be known upon the earth : they saving health among all nations."
I would submit a similar prayer is implied when praying for the Royal Family (and others in authority, vis a vis the US PB), to wit, that being justified by faith alone in Christ alone (Rom.3.28), they may be enriched with all heavenly graces, e.g. further sanctification and, ultimately, entrance to the Jerusalem above. It's there.
The Prayer Book is "Evangelical" in the NT and Reformational sense of the term, not the vitiated, gutted, and non-confessional sense of the fissiparous Evangelical-Pentecostalist-Revivalism. I call "that" sense "Religio Americanorum." From the latter, good LORD, spare us. To the former, let us pray aright and with good order, decency, and fidelity.