Tuesday Prayer: 39

This is my 39th 'Tuesday Prayer' post. It is the first where I am not quoting from a book, but from that strange recess at the back of my mind. You see, I've been thinking about prayer for a while. Fro a friend. For a book. For these blog posts. For my future. For my path. And the question, burning behind all this, is quite simple;

“What if Prayer was the thing that God used to change us into real, living, wonderful, creative human beings?

What if prayer was fundamental to who we are - and yet had nothing to do with us?”

This is a question. For pray-ers, and those interested in prayer, it is a big question. What if?

I'd love to hear your thoughts - prayer does shape us, but how fundamental is it to becoming what God desires us to be?

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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,  Norwegian O'Hallesby, Paul Miller, John Piper. Recently, we've heard Matthew Henry, Charles Finney, Andrew Murray, Tim Chester, Vaughan Roberts, Oliver O'Donovan, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and John Bunyan. Then we got rather retro, with quotes from Church Fathers John Chrysostom and Tertullian, before returning to more recent thinkers with Rowan Williams, Mike Reeves and Peter Jackson and Chris Wright and Andrew Case, R. C. Sproul, and (representing a slight change of tack) the Westminster Confession. Recently we considered Karl Barth, and Donald Macleod, Mary Prokes,  J. C. Ryle (again!), Andrew Murray,  Martyn Lloyd Jones, Hudson Taylor, and last weeks was about Ffald-y-Brenin.