American Reformation Church Prayer Journal 85
ARC Prayer Meeting:
This past Sunday the American Reformation Church continued its series on God’s love. In particular, the command of God that promotes and establishes Philadelphia, brotherly love amongst God’s people. We compared it to the counterfeit called the Brotherhood of Man based upon the religion of secular humanism. The purpose was to expose Satan’s faulty imitation in order to embrace God’s original plan for men and nations.
We covered that fact that there are similarities as both camps see some of the same burning issues, but there are profound differences when it comes to resolving those issues. What determines the solutions depends on one’s worldview. We all have the same evidence; it is our worldview that determines what we believe about that evidence.
We then explored the three principles that determine a legitimate worldview. Frist, what is man’s origins. We must know true history. Second, what went wrong with humanity. Something is seriously broken in the human race and third, what is the man-centered solutions as opposed to the God’s centered solutions as to what it will take to heal what ails humanity.
There are a host of prayers in the Scriptures that apply to the realm of Biblical worldview. The Lord’s model prayer recorded in Matthew 6:9-13 is certainly one of them. The themes covered there are God’s holiness, His Kingdom reign, human dependence upon God to meet our needs, the importance of forgiveness, and the human cry to be delivered from evil.
There is Hannah’s Prayer of Thanksgiving 1 Samuel 2:1–10. The Biblical themes covered there are God’s sovereignty over life, justice, and history. “The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.” Hannah recognizes God’s control over all things, reinforcing a worldview centered on His authority and justice. Mary’s Magnificat accomplishes the same truth in Luke 1:46-55.
There is David’s prayer of praise recorded in 1 Chronicles 29:10–13. The themes covered are God’s power, glory, and ownership of all creation. “Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.” This prayer emphasizes God as Creator and Owner of everything—a foundational element of a biblical worldview.
Lastly, there is Daniel’s prayer of confession in Daniel 9:4–19. The themes are God’s righteousness, human sin, repentance, and covenant mercy. “We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled… Lord, listen! Lord, forgive!” A biblical worldview recognizes human sinfulness and the need for God’s mercy. Proverbs 28:13 states, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”
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