Answered Prayer - Part 2/2

Of course I am not trying to be Joan of Arc - the Gungho prayer warrior.

I am the P.U.S.H (version 2) type.
Just feel we need to be aware.

In prayer, there is our humanness - of a desired outcome.
But also in prayer, there must be the Godness - of Thy will be done.

Answered Prayer - Part 1/2

As believer, we are told when we pray, 3 things can happen.
God could reply "Yes", God could reply "No", or God could reply Wait".

As believer, at times, we also say or hear others say
"God answered my prayer." or "God did not answer my prayer."

But aren't all the 3 replies considered "answers" from God. So didn't God answer prayer in either "Yes", "No", Or "Wait."

So what are we really saying when we say "God answered my prayer." or "God did not answer my prayer."

P.U.S.H. - Pray Until Something Happened
What is the Something?
Or should it be P.U.S.H. - Pray Until Specified Happened.

Fast Lane or Right Path

We have a discussion on Psalm 1 today and the topic of discussion was Fast Lane or Right Path.

We admit being on the right path is the way, but my question and observation is we still try to fast lane, many a times, 'if we can'.

Though hard to admit, but think about it.
If if our normal day to day dealings, we still tend to think about taking the Fast Lane and do tend to take the Fast Lane, what makes we think when it comes to spiritual matters, we don't adopt the same attitiude.

If we claim we don't, two possibilities (in my opnion)
1) We are hypocrites, or
2) We act 'too right' with God.

Minding Your Own Business

You were walking and minding your own business, very happily.
Soon, those around started adding this, that,to you, and subtracting this, that from you. And no longer you can mind your own business.

Sinning twice

We sin twice whenever...

Before - we sin because we don't think God can or will... just like Eve and Adam.
After - we sin because we don't think God will... God will not forgive me, I am so sinful.

Carly Simon "You're so vain, you probably think it is about you."

Secondhand (Alan Jones)

Alan Jones -

One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases we have to reply on secondhand info in order to function. I accept the word of a physician, a scientist, a farmer, on trust. I do not like to do this. I have to because they possess vital knowledge of living which I am ignorant.
Secondhand info concerning the state of my kidneys, the effects of cholestrol, the raising of chickens, I can live with.

BUT when it comes to question of meaning, purpose and death, secondhand information will not do.
I Cannot survive in a secondhand faith in a secondhand God.
There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.

Is it the ice or is it us?

Is it our faith in the ice or is it the ice which saves us when we skate across the lake in winter?

It is the ice that saves us, and it is our faith in the ice to bring us to skate.

Faith - God gives and we receive.