Psalms and Seizures
I'm not the first pastor to have a crisis, and I'm not the first Christian to struggle with praying. Hey, I'm not the first pastor to struggle with praying whilst in a crisis!. Perhaps, like me, you've read the biographies when the prayer warrior drops to the floor to pray every time he enters a room (really? I'm looking at you John 'Praying' Hyde) or can't go to sleep until he's led someone to the Lord. And then at 4am he's up again, not eating breakfast but praying. Again. I've probably spent a lot of my time in utter condemnation over this. You never get the biography which says "slept soundly through my quiet time again. Well, it was so quiet and warm." So that's the background to my hopeless life of prayer. I've often thought how great it would be to kneel in prayer with some of the saints of old. Yes, I know we do that in the Psalms and other prayers of Scripture and even a glimpse into Gethsemane with Jesus. But the t...