{"id":19331,"date":"2021-04-15T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19331"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:13:45","slug":"weekly-words-of-inspiration-from-pastor-anthony-l-scott-a-conversation-among-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/04\/15\/weekly-words-of-inspiration-from-pastor-anthony-l-scott-a-conversation-among-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Words Of Inspiration From Pastor Anthony L. Scott: A Conversation Among Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe LORD would speak with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Exodus 33:11a<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God\u2019s friend<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

James 2:23<\/em><\/p>\n

 
\nOne church leader has suggested, \u2018when it comes to prayer, we have not paid enough attention to the Bible.\u2019 It was his strong conviction that we need to reform our thinking along with our manner of praying considering God\u2019s Word.
\nThe Bible not only teaches us about prayer; it gives us many examples of prayer.\u00a0 It is not only God\u2019s Word to us, but it also teaches us how to respond to that Word.\u00a0 If prayer is the language of faith, then it should reflect the language of Scripture.\u00a0 Our understanding of prayer is bound up with our understanding of God and the gospel.
\nThere is an ancient Latin maxim: lex orandi est lex credenti et agendi<\/em> (the rule of prayer is the rule of belief and action.) If you cannot pray it, then you should not believe it or do it.\u00a0 The reverse is also true, our prayer and our concept of prayer can rise no higher than our concept of God.\u00a0 So, the best way to teach about prayer is to teach about God.\u00a0 Increasing knowledge of God yields a spiritually mature response to God.
\nWe get more interested in ourselves than in God.\u00a0 We get absorbed in what is or is not happening in us.\u00a0 Prayer has primarily to do with God, not us.\u00a0 Therefore, our thinking, our imagination, and our understanding need to be trained to begin with God and not ourselves.
\nPrayer is the conversation of friends.\u00a0 It is not simply a vehicle for letting God know what we are thinking or what we want.\u00a0 Prayer is that for which we were made.\u00a0 To understand and appreciate the privilege and import of prayer, we need to view it in the context of God\u2019s desire to have a relationship with His people.\u00a0 Further, it is not possible as a Christian so say I will pray, or I will not pray.\u00a0 To be a Christian and to pray mean the same thing, it is as much a necessity as breathing is to life.
\nYou and I were created to be God\u2019s friends and to answer His loving self-communication with responsive love.\u00a0 Jesus not only gives us access to God, but He also makes us family.\u00a0 He invites us to call God \u2018Father\u2019 while He himself calls us friends.\u00a0 It was for this reason we were made: to know God; to be with Him, and to enjoy friendship with Him.\u00a0 Prayer is an expression of the very heart of God to know us and to be known by us.
\nWe all readily rejoice in knowing and conversing with someone who is even moderately important, how much more should we bask in knowing and conversing with the One Who is ultimately and eternally important.\u00a0 Be sure and have a conversation with your Friend today! He loves to hear from you!
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www.fbcnt.org   \u201cThe LORD would speak with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend.\u201d \u00a0Exodus 33:11a \u201cAnd the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God\u2019s friend.\u201d\u00a0 James 2:23   One church leader has suggested, \u2018when it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,103,106],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-featured","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19331"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}