Showing posts with label Philemon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philemon. Show all posts

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Joy and Encouragement

Your love has given me great joy and encouragement. (Philemon 1:7 (NIV), Daily Guideposts - 2011, 3 November) 6 December 2012

Sunday, February 13, 2011

A Sense of Need

No one will make a request unless a sense of need has already wakened the desire to make that request.
  • Prayer begins with a sense of need.
  • It begins with the conviction that we cannot deal with life ourselves.
  • It begins with the sense of our own inadequacy.
  • It begins in the sense of human weakness.
  • That sense of human weakness is the basis of all human approach to God.
  • Prayer begins with the realization of the helplessness of manhood.
(William Barclay, The Letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemon, p. 65-66) 13/Feb/2011 8:01