Tim Franklin, Freedom Christian Center, Melbourne, FL - January 2010
When one asks, why is this a prayerless generation? There can really only be one answer—We do not know Him.
We have reduced Jesus to a doctrine, a memorized scripture, a system of religious beliefs or rituals and have lost the ultimate experience of a living, dynamic, growing relationship with the person of the Lord, Jesus Christ. To have this kind of relationship requires that we have knowledge of Him, not the kind that comes from a book and fills our head but the kind that comes from revelation of Him and fills our heart. This is what prompted Paul to write in Philippians 3:8 “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ. NKJV Paul discovered something of Jesus that caused him to want to know more. His road to Damascus experience drove him to the scriptures, caused him to study, and pressured him from an internal witness to know the eternal Son of God. Every discovery led to more hunger to know Him more. The more we know Him personally, the more we study to know more of Him, and the more we study to know more of him the more He reveals to us who He is. This fuels the heart to pray and encounter God. We must know Him not know about Him.
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