God-Seeking Prayer
Aug 21st, 2007 by pfadmin
“The conviction that drives God-seeking prayer is that all true accomplishments in doing the work of God are really the accomplishments of God himself. When we pursue him in prayer, we are admitting that the real answers and the real joy and the real breakthroughs lie with God. Seeking him humbles us to compliant obedience to his Word and ways, for seekers must approach him on his terms. We learn patience and self-discipline. We flatten ourselves before God in radical dependence, crying out that he would make his blessing real to us.
…God-seeking prayer is persistent, tenacious. We reach out to him, and we refuse to let go. …When we are seeking the Lord, we do not settle for trite, easy answers. We want truth. We want reality. And we don’t quit until we find God truly and really. Nothing but God himself will satisfy. C.S. Lewis describes this mentality as ‘an appetite for God,’ a kin of gnawing hunger that defines satisfaction only in terms of God. …As lions prowl for food, ravenous with hunger, and may find no relief, so we seek the Lord, driven by a kind of hunger as well. But true seekers ‘lack no good thing.'” —Raymond Ortlund, When God Comes to Church, p. 182