Finding the Confidence to Pray

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The doctrine of God’s all-governing providence is not a problem for our prayers. It is our only hope for our prayers coming to pass.

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0:00.0	Pastor John's new book is about the precious doctrine of God's providence and the title
0:09.0	is simply Providence.
0:11.2	God sustains and governs over everything that he made, leading all things to their appointed
0:16.6	end.
0:17.6	And he reveals this remarkable truth to us in thousands of texts in the Bible.
0:22.2	It's all over the place.
0:23.8	By welcoming us into this incredible, revealed reality.
0:28.2	God calls us to see and savor this for ourselves.
0:31.7	He wants us to treasure his providence.
0:34.5	He wants us to treasure his providence so much that it brings tangible changes to how
0:39.2	we live and how we think and how we pray.
0:43.3	On Wednesday, as we focus on these implications, we're looking at 10 of them.
0:47.0	Last time, in episode 1592, we looked at how treasuring God's providence is a spiritual
0:51.9	and theological vaccination against man-centered theology.
0:56.5	That was implication number seven, episode 1592.
1:00.2	Today, we turn to prayer.
1:02.6	Here with implication number eight is Pastor John to explain.
1:06.8	We're talking about the effects or the benefits or blessings of seeing and savoring the
1:15.6	providence of God.
1:18.0	Even though in my experience they are all wonderful, nevertheless, it feels to me that this
1:26.2	one that I'm going to talk about right now is one of the most amazing and precious and
1:32.5	wonderful effects of knowing and loving the all-pervading providence of God.
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