Subject: How do I pray for myself? |
Bible Note: Dear David, I don't know about you, but because you are human I expect that you are much like I am. I have wicked thoughts as well as righteous thoughts. I would hate to believe that all my thoughts were recieved by God as prayer. Part of the burden we bear is our still sinful natures. We long to be free from sin and to be made perfect. We now have a right standing before God based on faith and not works. It is an imputed righteousness founded on Christ's perfect obediance to the Father. Our own righteousness is still nothing but filthy rags. Which is why we look to and trust Him rather than ourselves. When we are glorified, we will no longer be plagued by sinful thoughts and desires. But until then we must continue to wage war against the world, the flesh and the devil. Rom 7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. Rom 7:24,25 "Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin." John |