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19. Prayers do not happen in a vacuum, God is working a story and even our prayers for others should transform us
because he is a loving father, concerned with all aspects of our life
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A Father’s Love.
Earthly fathers imperfectly model our heavenly father, as we imperfectly seek the best for our children God perfectly seeks that which is best for us.
As a father who knows better than us, he may put us through difficult times for our good
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Desert, God seeks to give us that which is best, which is himself.
Putting us through the desert forces us to him rather than settling for the lesser things of the world.
Chapter 19 - Watching a story unfold
Our prayers are part of the larger work that God is doing in our lives and others lives.
Our Prayers Shape Us
God is doing more than answering prayers
We live in an era of the customer support desk
We have problem and we give the problem to the company support desk
the better ones provide a quick and adequate solution to our problem
The bad ones require us to pester them over and over till we finally get a manager
to return our defective Television
How astonished would we be if the manager decided it would be better for us to keep the defective television
How astonished would we be if the manager decided it would be better for us to keep the defective television
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That yes, he could authorize a replacement but that it wouldn’t be in your best interest right now.
No, what we expect is for the manager to do everything to fix the problem as we see it.
Points in Book
Points in Book
although we might have a dialogue we never anticipate or accept that we ourselves may need change.
the last thing we want is to bring the support desk into our life
The goal, is that they will solve the problem and be out of our lives when they are no longer needed
We look at the problem as isolated from the rest of our life and we like it that way
isolated from the rest of our life and we like it that way
It is not like this with God
God is doing something much larger than answering prayers
With God
Our prayers are to change us (even if we are praying for change in others)
When we pray for other
Prayer should change how we see other people
to see them as people
With our children especially we can see their problems as things to fix
prayer shifts our view to see them as people that need to grow in faith
We want to see instant results
We should see our own sin
rather we should be patient in prayer as we
to pray for the sin in another life should expose the same in our own hearts
If we see sins in our children
It should reveal sins in our own hearts
Prayer in Parenting
God is doing more than Answering our prayers
Paul Miller notes that the importance of prayer in parenting is often understated
Prayer draws God into our lives
we believe that with the right principles and environment in place we can insure that our kids turn out right.
It changes the Prayer (or ought)
or we see that our children will is bent to evil we simply overpower their will with ours in the hope they will conform to us
even prays to change the heart of someone else ought to change us.
but the goal is not that our children conform to our will, it should be to see them in our heavenly fathers will
Praying for others hearts or sin issues
And we are completely incapable of changing our children hearts
We are to see them as a person, not a problem to be solved
We can do a lot to change the exterior
Not to be negligent in training our Children, but the cure for their heart cannot come from the parent
How the sins manifest themselves
Love informs our prayers, and our prayers shape how we love
But we cannot do the work of the heart necessary to purify our children from sin
Prayer relies on God to make a change, yet informs us how to enact our wills in subjection
I can see this strongly in my own parenting of my children
(Emily had a bent for the love of things, their response was to pray while removing temptations when possible)
Particularly some of our adopted children that arrived with some extremely bad habits
Prayers are to expose our own hearts
My children are lyers
It is never one way
In the early days I was bewildered by the lying because it had become so pervasive that my children lied even when it didn't’ help them
If our prayers our genuine for another persons sin, we should be convicted of the same
Most children start lying to get out of trouble or to get something they want
Prayers are always two way
With mine it had become such a part of their life that they barely considered telling the truth
even If we are speaking to God about someone else, there is likely something we are to grow in
And although their lying is much less now, they are still little lyers
Prayers exist in the Larger Story of what God is doing
they no longer lie in every situation as a matter of habit
in our lives
Our discipline has changed their behavior
in others lives
but the root sin in the heart is unchanged
Parenting and Prayer
I have seen something similar with the Anger in Leyiah
Creating the perfect environment is not sufficient to remedy the problem of sin in our children
As parents we cannot change our children’s hearts
We change the child by dominating his/her will
we don’t carry the power to defeat sin
We must be convinced that we parents cannot change our children's hearts
Son on the one hand Paul Miller says parents error in thinking they themselves can change their children’s hearts
We fail to repent of our sins in the face of our children’s sins
But the error in the other direction is to say they will never change
Self-willed children
We have moved to an extremely passive parenting
My child is what he is and so we might as well get used to it.
self-willed
We make excuses for the child behavior since we are hopeless it can change
Angry
Modern psychology fuels this
Paul miller categorizes the two approaches as Despair & Demanding
Deceptive
The demanding parent sees the control in their own hands
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