“The Lord spoke to me again.”

“what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying.”

“I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. “

“I, the Lord, have spoken” – Ezekiel 30:1-2, 6, 12 GNT

These were key phrases that challenged me – if they are true, do they reflect in how I pray? If God speaks to me, am I praying to that end? If His word stands true and His ways are sovereign, does this represent how I pray or does the situation take over?

If I am praying fervently towards an end and am seeing no movement there, does that affect how I pray and continue to pray? The tendency is I get discouraged and give up.

“Protestants believe in the sufficiency of the Bible. That is, they believe that God’s Spirit speaks to us in his Word. Timothy Ward writes of ‘Scripture…as the means by which God extends his action, and therefore himself, into the world in order to act communicatively in relation to us.’ The Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin taught that the Spirit spoke ‘through Scripture itself’ rather than through ‘the increasingly authoritative ecclesiastical center in Rome.’ A strong Reformation view of the sufficiency of Scripture has a major shaping influence on the practice of prayer.” – Timothy Keller