by John Bunyan, modernized; scripture quotations from HCSB 1. What it is to pray. 2. What it is to pray with the Spirit. 3. What it is to pray with the Spirit and with the understanding. 4. Use and application And now to the next thing: what it is to pray with the Spirit and with the understanding also. Paul…
by John Bunyan, modernized with HCSB SECOND. I will pray with the Spirit. Now to pray with the Spirit—for that is the praying man, and none else, in order to be accepted of God—it is for a man, as we have said, sincerely and sensibly, with affection, to come to God through Christ, and so on. That sincere, sensible, and…
Luke 5:1-11 is a tremendously powerful little story. Jesus sees two boats, and the fishermen washing their nets—after a long night of catching nothing. The fishermen are Peter, James, and John, partners in a fishing enterprise (v. 10). Jesus gets in the boat, and He tells Peter to go out deep and put out the nets. The nets they just…