While the Bible
speaks of different types of prayer, let’s think of two different types and
compare them. Meditative Prayer &
Contemplative Prayer.
Meditative
Prayer
|
Contemplative
Prayer
|
Speech
|
Silence
|
Activity
|
Receptivity
|
Discursive
thought
|
Loss of mental
images and ideas
|
Vocal and
mental prayer
|
Wordless prayer
and interior stillness
|
Natural
faculties of reason and imagination
|
Mysterious
darkening of the natural faculties
|
Affective
feelings
|
Loss of
feelings
|
Reading and
reflection
|
Inability to
meditate
|
Doing
|
Being
|
Seeking
|
Receiving
|
Talking to
Jesus
|
Entering into
the prayer of Jesus
|
· Take time to present yourself to the Lord in silence and yieldedness
· Do not be over concerned with your expectations, wait
· When your mind wanders, draw it back with a “special” verse or Scripture
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of
witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily
entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2
· Contemplation is a work of God
· Nourish your Inner life
Devotional Spirituality: Falling in Love with God
1. God is our Highest Good
·
The School of
Renunciation –
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1
So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future--all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God. 1 Corinthians 3:21-23
“Father, I want to know Thee, but my cowardly heart fears
to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do
not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but I do
come. Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long
and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter
and dwell there without a rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet
glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shin in it, for
Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there. In Jesus’
name, Amen.” AW Tozer, The Pursuit of
God
“Learn
in the creature to love the Creator; and in the work Him who made it. Let not
that which has been made by Him detain thine affections, so that thou shouldest
lose Him by whom thou thyself wert made also. . . . But why dost thou love
those things, except because they are beautiful? Can they be as beautiful as He
by whom they were made? Thou admirest these things because thou seest not Him:
but through those things which thou admirest, love Him whom thou seest not.” St.
Augustine, Expositions on the Psalms:
·
Pursuing God’s
Pleasure
but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is
better, and it will not be taken away from her." Luke 10:42
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Matthew 13:44
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Matthew 13:44
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