Monday, November 17, 2008

Exam Prayers

On the topic of prayers I'm running a campaign to change the way we pray about exams.

Most prayers I have heard and formerly prayed for people who are about to sit exams is: that they remember what they have studied and God gives them a just mark.

My campaign is for gospel prayers: that the God of Daniel reveal to people what they haven't studied, and that the God of the gospel gives people marks they don't deserve.

I've been criticized that this is encouraging people not to study and allows for people to, how shall I say? 'sin more that grace may increase?' Paul's answer is fitting: 'Don't be stupid!'

4 comments:

Mike Bull said...

Yes, God can do beyond what we can think. I, too, have been reading Joyce Meyer.

Seriously, that's only for when God sends bad dreams to Gentile rulers after the obedience of His people, a gift of interpretation after ascension that prefigured Christ's opening of the New Covenant scroll.

But hey, we have not because we ask not. Our Father never doles out rocks or snakes.

Matthew Moffitt said...

Oh no, not Joyce Meyer (cringe),

Mike Bull said...

Yes. She has just released an 8 page volume on hermeneutics.

Matt Bales said...

Who???