Prayer Northampton

Broadmead Community Church – Saturday 7.00 – 8.00am

‘Winning the battle for a better prayer life’

Prayer Northampton. We have 20+ churches on this platform doing the same service. See inside for the one which will suit you best blessings – Most of us would agree that we need to lift our prayer life to a higher level, but how? Retired Baptist minister Don Attenborough commends those who have inspired him in the Christian discipline of prayer   

I have no doubt that like me you have all struggled with the Christian discipline of prayer. You have probably tried rising early in the morning and giving yourself to spending time with the Lord; you may have attempted an hour or more of prayer and Bible reading, before getting into the ‘nitty gritty’ of everyday life, but over and over again throughout my Christian life I have mostly failed miserably! How about you?

There are many ways

In which Satan scuppers our best plans to spend time with Jesus, and that subject alone would make a lengthy article, but I found when I was in the ministry, that administrative duties and responsibilities made my plans for a better prayer life produce a major battle area, which often or not brought defeat. My time for prayer was crowded out and periods of study with the Bible would get less and less.

Yet I would read of people like Basilea Schlink, the 20th century German Protestant nun and Christian writer, who found as she spent more and more time alone with Jesus, somehow she got all her responsibilities done and then much more! One day the Lord said to Basilea, ‘Give me more of your time. Give me more room in your heart. I want you completely.’

“What did he want?” she asked herself, “…he wanted more than my normal times of prayer.”

When Basilea Schlink

had entered into this new level if intimacy with Christ, more was done than ever before and more fruit came of those endeavours; in her renewed and increased prayer life there also came a greater sense of the love of Christ. She writes: “I felt his love, burning like a fire and far more intense than any human love, coming straight from the heart of him whose love sustains the universe. I felt his love, fervent yet gentle, as no human love could be. His love was irresistible, drawing me closer and closer, calling me to be completely available for him.”

Is this greater knowledge of Jesus love something you seek? I know I do!      Addition, Additionally, Furthermore, Moreover, Likewise, Also, Contrast, However, Nevertheless, On the other hand, Conversely, Nonetheless, Comparison, Similarly, Likewise.  In comparison, Similarly, Likewise, Example. For example, For instance, Such as, To illustrate, In particular, Emphasis,. Indeed, Certainly.  Undoubtedly, Above all, Especially, Result, Consequently, Therefore, Thus, As a result, Accordingly. In conclusionTo sum up, Ultimately, Finally, In summary, Meanwhile, Simultaneously, Subsequently, Eventually, Previously, Firstly, Secondly,Thirdly.  Next, Finally, That is to say, To clarify, Namely, Specifically.    Coffee Morning – https://stretch-wide.com,  Youth Group – https://stretch-wide.com, 

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