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Mike is a former senior pastor and church planter in the Pacific Northwest, and served for three years as the executive producer of The Albert Mohler Program, a nationally syndicated radio show dedicated to Christianity and culture. Mike is a Ph.D. Candidate in American church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary writing his dissertation on radio and the American church during the period 1920 to 1950. Mike is husband to Julia and father to four wonderful children: Samuel (9), Anna (7), John (6) and Michael (1). When not reading, writing or editing, Mike loves sports, music and hanging out with his family.

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Mike Pohlman

Executive Editor, The Gospel Coalition

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Would You Pray This Prayer?

Proverbs 30:7-9:

Two things I ask of you;
  deny them not to me before I die:
Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
  give me neither poverty nor riches;
  feed me with the food that is needful for me,
lest I be full and deny you
  and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
  and profane the name of my God.

 

 

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LawrenceJCaldwell
3/17/2009 7:16 PM
Would you pray this prayer if you had no paycheck at all? Jesus said in Luke 14:33, "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Would you still pray this prayer if this condition was attached to it? Would you be satisfied with nothing (but Jesus alone)? This is really the essence of the question. As long as we hold onto even just a little, the flesh will succumb to Proverbs 27:20, "Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied," and Proverbs 30:15-16 (just following this prayer), "There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough."

Only when reckon ourselves dead to the flesh and sin will we be satisfied thoroughly in God alone.

Larry

http://www.biblicalquality.blogspot.com
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