Required reading
A Call to United Extraordinary Prayer in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Sections I to IV of Part II.
My summary
Today Edwards starts giving motives to comply with the proposed memorial for extraordinary prayer:
(i) there is yet remaining a great advancement of the interest of religion and the kingdom of Christ in this world;
(ii) the future promised advancement of the kingdom of Christ is an event unspeakably happy and glorious;
(iii) how much Christ prayed and laboured and suffered, in order to the glory and happiness of that day;
(iv) the whole, creation is, as it were, earnestly waiting for that day, and constantly groaning and travailing in pain to bring forth the felicity and glory of it.
What grabbed me
I think the example of Christ was the most powerful: 'Now therefore, if this is what Jesus Christ, our great Redeemer and the head of the church, did so much desire, and set his heart upon, from all eternity, and for which he did and suffered so much, offering up strong crying and team, and his precious blood, to obtain it; surely his disciples and members should also earnestly seek it, and be much in prayer for it.'
Indeed we should!
Next week's reading
Read Sections V to VII of Part II.
Now it's your turn
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