Donald Whitney Update!

Here is a conversation I had recently with my friend, Marci after reading an article with her:

Me: So what do you think?

Marci: It makes a lot of sense.  This article answered all of my questions.

Me: What questions did it answer for you? 

Marci: About salvation--like what it says about good works and how they are a result of receiving Christ, but you don't have to do good works to receive Christ...

Our staff team likes to use this article a lot to help people who are spiritually interested move forward in their spiritual journey.  It is a great tool to use because it clearly explains the Gospel, and it will usually stir up a conversation that will help to distinguish what could be holding a person back from placing their trust in Christ.  

If you want to take a look at this article, download it here at this link: 

It is the last article on the column on the left.  It's called Life With God.

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Kyle and I wanted to highlight some of what Donald Whitney taught us at our First Love Retreat.  One of the main areas of discipline that Whitney focused on was prayer.  He said that our problem with prayer is that we "say the same old things about the same old things".  Praying about the same old things isn't a bad thing, it's normal!  For many of us, we feel that prayer can be boring, and when prayer is boring, we don't feel like praying, and when we don't feel like praying, we just don't pray.  

Whitney taught us a method of prayer that will, by God's grace, transform our prayer lives.  His method/solution was to pray through scripture each day; his suggestion was a psalm.  

If you would like to try this, choose a psalm and and begin by praying through it by each line.  Whatever comes to mind, pray about it.  When nothing else comes to mind, continue to the next line.  Pray until you finish the psalm or run out of time!  

If you would like to do this on a daily basis, Whitney's suggestion was to start by taking the day of the month as your psalm to pray.  Just say that it was the 15th of the month.  Add 30 to that number, then your next psalm would be psalm 45.  If we continued this, it would be psalm 75,105, and 135.  Look over these psalms, then choose the one you would like to pray through.  

This method of prayer has been great for both us and our students.  By praying through the psalms, it gives us direction to begin praying each day, and it also has brought to mind different things to pray about, that we normally wouldn't take the time to pray.  We hope that this new way of praying will be as beneficial to your own walk with the Lord as it has been for us.