Praying for Specific Christian Growth
Poem★★★★AY.M.C.A. student complained one day to his Bible teacher that prayer would be real if he prayed for specific things necessary to confirm his life to God’s will. Every evening for a while, then, he prayed for God’s forgiveness for specific acts which he knew were not Christian.
Un- charitable attitudes toward fellow employes or toward his employer, or any other un-Christian conduct, would come into prayer. In the morning he would pray that God might help him to be honest in this or that particular deal which he would soon confront, or that God would enable him to treat this peculiar man as he should be treated. In a week he was ready to tell his teacher that prayer had become real and that God had become a certainty.—Carl Knudsen.
The point
A young man discovers authentic prayer by specifically confessing daily sins and requesting God's help with temptations he faces, making faith real and personal.