by Troy Pearsall "Oh that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to His seat! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments." – Job 23:3,4 C har le s Spurgeon in his sermon on Effective Prayer , and then again John Piper as an exegesis of Psalm 143 in his sermon titled “ How to argue with God ” Both sited Job 23:3-:4 as a starting point for their tremendously powerful sermons on prayer. Where the goal of Charles Spurgeon’s was to develop in the members of his church, an effective prayer life, John Piper’s goal, seemed to be to teach on how to argue with God. So powerful in fact are the lessons taught by these two men that I wanted to address this most complicated and off-times ignored practice of “filling our mouths with argument to God”. In fact a deeper understanding of filling our mouths with arguments is naturally the next level of intensity concerning this subject. Filling our mouths with arguments to God is not t...

by Soli Deo Gloria In his letter to Rome, the Apostle Paul instruct the new followers of Christ Jesus to “be constant in prayer" One very unique thing about most of the epistles of Paul is that they start with prayer or the acknowledgement of other in his prayer. In Romans 1:8 Paul start addressing those called to be saint with “First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you” In 1 Corinthians 1:4 Paul states “I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;” In fact in all of his epistles (letters) Paul either speaks directly to praying continually (unceasing) or alludes to doing so. It’s very important that we see prayer as not just something we do, but something we do with God. Prayer is how we commune with God, without prayer there can be no relationship with God through Christ Jesus. At this point we see prayer as important but not Omni-important, but this should quickly change, in 1 Thessalonians ...