The Narrow Path Ministries

Prayer - Alps time lapse HD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSZx6KYhzg

Sundry time lapse clips of the European Alps set to an excerpt from the book "Signs and wonders today" by Donald Bridge

Quotation reproduced by kind permission from Inter-Varsity Press



Extra blurb from me:

This piece is dedicated to the most loving man I have ever met, Reverend Stephen F. Winward, a Baptist Minister in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England up until his death in the early 1980s. Stephen had worn a hole in his study room carpet from the many hours of kneeling in prayer before his Lord. God`s love radiated from every fibre of his gentle soul. "All Christians are hypocrites"?

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Thank you Ian,

how lovely; and thank you for the tip about the headphones, and full screen - really wonderful experience (I had completely forgotten one can do that with youtube!)

I really like these- the music and scenery is so calming. Some day I am going to see the Alps in person (Lord willing!).

However, in this one something he says doesn't sit quite right with me:

Prayer is not the exercise of changing the will of that Being [God] but of adjusting oneself to His will.

Now, to be fair, I believe that this statement is true. Oswald Chambers, in several of his daily devotions, says something very similar. And I am not sure if I disagree with Mr. Chambers on anything.

But I do not believe that this is ALL that prayer is.

On a local conservative christian radio station (Moody broadcasting) they have been running an ad about prayer basically saying that there is much build up of force when water is pushing against a dam, and when just enough force is applied, the dam will burst. The analogy is made to prevailing prayer- i.e. how sometimes a person or group of person will pray for a breakthrough in a certain area- often for years-- and how at some point that prayer will be answered. The implication is that God is perhaps waiting (for His own purposes) for a certain amount of prayer to be offered up before answering. I believe there is truth in this.

Prayer is something of a mystery- and I think for the most part the purpose of prayer is to fellowship with God so that we will know what His will is. Jesus WAS the will of God becaue of His relationship to the Father. But when it comes to intercessory prayer- i have to believe that we can "persuade" God to act. Jesus told us to ask with childlike faith.

TK

Fair dinkum TK (Suzana will hear that phrase a lot where she lives!) I have added a comment to that effect on the youtube page. Thanks to both.

It's anoth beautiful video, Ian. I agree with the excerpt and with TK's expansion on it.

BTW, my family once had an Australian cattle dog (Blue Heeler) named "Dinkum," which we named after the Australian expression "fair dinkum." Suzana can correct me, but I believe the Aussies use the expression the way we might use the expression "For sure!"

I believe the Aussies use the expression the way we might use the expression "For sure!"

I thought it to mean "fair enough" in a conceding-a-point sort of way, but I`m only a Pom. You better hear it from an Aussie!

Suzana can settle this for us...

Hi guys,

We use 'fair dinkum' to mean something or someone is being true or genuine - eg. 'it's a fair dinkum offer', or 'such & such happened, and that's fair dinkum'.
I guess that's how you would use 'for sure'?
By the way, Steve, that's a nice new avatar you have now, and that's fair dinkum. :)

Thanks, Suzana! For clearing that up, I mean. Also for the compliment on the avatar. I really don't know why my hair looks so blond in it, instead of its natural gray! It must be the bright sunlight. I look mighty red-faced too! The color is just off in that picture, I guess, but I liked it because someone caught me smiling naturally (yes, that is a smile—rare in my photos), and it is a recent representation of my current hair length (which might drastically change at any time). I didn't like the last picture I had here. It looked too much like most of my pictures—austere!

i agree -- great pic steve. i thought the one with the pony tail was pretty cool too.

TK