Prof Zebulon No E20
(F) Christian Living (Prayer in the Life
of a Christian)
Does a Christian need to be told that
prayer is important? The Lord commands
us to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians
So what are we to pray for? That the Lord saves someone who is dear to
us? The Lord wants everyone to be saved (2 Tim 2:4) so why should we pray for someone's
salvation? I believe the Lord gives us
opportunities to speak to the unsaved and lets us partake in the joy of seeing
someone come to Him in repentance. Therefore, we should pray for opportunities
to witness to people; will this guarantee their salvation? No it won't.
Once, there were these two life-long
friends; one was a Christian and the other one wasn't. The Christian prayed earnestly all his life
for the salvation of his friend but he never did see him come to the Lord. When the Christian died, his unsaved friend
trusted Christ as his Saviour at his funeral.
The Lord is in control of everything and
I sincerely believe that we are to pray to be in God's will; that we are to
pray according to His Word; that we are to pray as Daniel prayed. Daniel chapter 9 from verse 1 to 19 is a true
intercessory prayer and in verse 19, Daniel prays: "O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not,
for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy
name".
Our prayers ought to be modeled after
Daniel's.
H)
Prophesy (Amillennialism explained)
The amillenial view holds that there
will be no literal millennium on the earth following the Second Coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ and that Satan was bound at the First Coming of Christ. This present age between the first and the
second coming is the fulfillment of the millennium as described in Revelation;
we are presently in the millennium.
There are basically two viewpoints of
amillennialism; 1) the Augustinian
viewpoint in which the millennium will be completed here on earth 2) the
Warfield viewpoint states that the millennium will be completed in heaven.
When our Lord Jesus Christ returns a
second time, the world will end and we will be ushered into the eternal
state. The amillennial view is similar
to the post-millennial view in that Jesus Christ will return after the
millennial period. All the promises that
God made to
One word on post-millennialism; it is no
longer an issue in the theological world.
World War II brought about the demise of this system mainly because its
followers believed that the world would get better and better and that the Lord
would return a second time into a perfect world.