"Prayer has a history, written in God's Word and recorded in the experiences and lives of God's saints. History is truth teaching by example." - E. M. Bounds
The Bible records history. It is not merely a collection of assorted moral anecdotal polemics. In its pages we observe God's people praying. We see what it looked like for them to talk to God and for Him to talk back. Prayer, therefore, as E.M. Bounds points out, has a history. A concrete, objective, recordable, relatable history.
When we pray, we do something our brothers and sisters in the faith have been doing from the beginning. It isn't something we invented or something we're left alone to figure out. We can look back and see how it was done, how it worked, what it did, when it was done, etc...
Faith has a history. It is not a subjective, slippery specter on to which one can only pass through and at best hope for a chilly feeling. It is real, concrete, objective and it produces real fruit... a harvest you can handle, count, touch and taste and see that the Lord is God and good.
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