Tuesday Prayer: 18

This is the eighteenth in my now fairly-long-running 'Tuesday Prayer' post, and today I want to share with you a quote from a book I bought this weekend and have nearly finished. Written by the prolific Tim Chester, 'You Can Pray' is a helpful and comprehensive book that I am finding actually does engage with the questions real Christians have about prayer. His theological background is evident through, especially in his constant emphasis on the Trinity in prayer;

“We pray conscious of the three persons. But we must never separate them, like tritheists - people who functionally believe in three gods. To encounter one divine person is to know the others. To see Jesus is to know the Father. The Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. This means we always have communion with God - not a part of the God...” 

This, for me, is a helpful quote. It reminds us of the nature, the being, of the God we pray to, with, and in. I think it is important to remember this in prayer - rather than praying in a limited way. I wonder, have you ever through about the Trinitarian nature of our prayers before?

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Don't forget to check out the previous posts in the series, featuring quotes from Tom Wright, John Wimber, Richard Foster and Don Carson, the great J. C. Ryle and theologians Alister McGrath and James K. A. Smith. Since then, I've shared quotes from Justin Welby, E.M. Bounds, Vineyard Pastor Ken Wilson, C. S. Lewis,  O'Hallesby, Paul Miller, John Piper, Matthew Henry, of Charles Finney, and last weeks was Andrew Murray.