In the Garden of Eden, God walked and talked with his creation. As we start 2017, such a natural relationship is still God’s blueprint for our lives, urges teacher, author and pastor Pete Greig…
Pete Greig is a pioneer who believes the power of the presence of God is revealed when we choose to walk with him. “We’re designed for a living relationship with God,” Pete candidly shares with iBelieve. “Which involves talking to him and listening to him. You wouldn’t think much of my relationship with my wife if we never talked to each other. “So prayer is the most natural thing. Surveys tell us that pretty much everyone prays – even atheists. We know that children naturally pray, people in crisis will naturally cry out to God. “Prayer is something very natural, but there are reasons people can struggle with prayer from time to time. One can be that they have disappointments; they tried praying and nothing happened. For that reason, we have to be honest about unanswered prayer. Often the Church is less honest about unanswered prayer, but when you read the book of Psalms, half of it is lament and the word Israel means ‘struggle’. We have been baptised into a faith that is about fighting and wrestling.
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“Prayer is something very natural, but there are reasons people can struggle with prayer from time to time.’
“Another reason people find prayer difficult is because they don’t see the need for it… they feel that if God is God, he will do it anyway. That is simply not true.”
“There are things that will only happen in our world if we pray about them.”
“I always tell people, ‘Keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.”
This article is from the January 2017 issue of iBelieve Magazine. Order your copy today…