Pray and Expect God to Move
Not long ago I was talking to a group of people and one of them said something about being surprised about something for which we had been asking God to do. I laughed and said, “Why are we surprised? We asked God to do it!” We all laughed, but how many times does that happen?
David McIntyre said, “And to the same effect Richard Sibbes writes: ‘We should watch daily, continue instant in prayer; strengthen our supplications with arguments from God’s Word and promises; and mark how our prayers speed. When we shoot an arrow, we look to its fall; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow, we look for an harvest … It is atheism to pray and not to wait in hope. A sincere Christian will pray, wait, strengthen his heart with the promises, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.’”
(The Hidden Life of Prayer, p. 114).
David McIntyre said, “And to the same effect Richard Sibbes writes: ‘We should watch daily, continue instant in prayer; strengthen our supplications with arguments from God’s Word and promises; and mark how our prayers speed. When we shoot an arrow, we look to its fall; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow, we look for an harvest … It is atheism to pray and not to wait in hope. A sincere Christian will pray, wait, strengthen his heart with the promises, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.’”
(The Hidden Life of Prayer, p. 114).
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