Robb Schiller

I had a few more thoughts today and we should call them, think­ing vs doing part two.

I am pretty sure that my favorite part about hav­ing a web­site is being able to con­stantly cre­ate dif­fer­ent ways of word­ing things and hook­ing things together. If I am never able to become a rac­ing yachts­man when I grow up I def­i­nitely want to be a wordsmith.

I wrote a post a few days ago while I was think­ing about the prob­lems aris­ing from an unbal­anced flow of think­ing and doing in a per­sons life.  The per­son who thinks their way in and out of loops and becomes par­a­lyzed at the thought of doing.  Or the per­son who does things with­out account­ing for the winds direc­tion, the reper­cus­sions or the power lines beneath the soil.

But there was some­thing I did not regard in the last post that plays an ever increas­ing role in the deci­sion mak­ing process, espe­cially in the life of the saint.

Prayer.

How is prayer accounted for in the process of think­ing and doing? should prayer pre­cede all thoughts and action?

How does prayer prac­ti­cally impact ones thoughts and actions?

Seems that prayer should always precede.

John 17:1
After say­ing all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glo­rify your Son so he can give glory back to you.

“When God has some­thing very great to accom­plish for His church, it is His will that there should pre­cede it, the extra­or­di­nary prayers of His peo­ple; as is man­i­fest by Ezek. 36, 37, together with the con­text. And it is revealed that when God is about to accom­plish great things for His Church, He will begin by remark­ably pour­ing out the spirit of grace and sup­pli­ca­tion (Zach. 12:10). …I should think the peo­ple of God in this land would be in the way of their duty to do three times as much fast­ing and prayer as they do” Jonathan Edwards, from his Thoughts on Revival, Part 5.

Scrip­turally, prayer should always be lead­ing the way in both thought, action and even their coun­ter­part — con­ver­sa­tion. Very often do we mis­take a good con­ver­sa­tion or ground­break­ing thoughts for direct inter­ces­sion with the Father.  Jesus was always intent on mak­ing sure his prayer life was above all, He under­stood in its full­ness the impor­tance of such a pre­cur­sor to all thoughts, con­ver­sa­tion and action.

Very often do I mis­take some pos­i­tive move­ment of con­ver­sa­tion for a Holy notch on the charts, feel­ing like I’ve given myself a false sense of God­li­ness, then I might turn to prayer. When will be the day that prayers true power is real­ized in the church?