John Bunyans’s Plea for Prayer

Posted January 8th, 2008 by MamaArcher 3 Comments »

John Bunyan ( 1628 – 1688 ) is considered a hero of the faith. He is a man who was imprisioned for 12 years for preaching the Gospel and is author of the famous and loved Pilgrim’s Progress. John Bunyan clearly understood the state of man and his total dependence upon the Lord.

I would like to share with you John Bunyan’s plea for prayer and may it also be the plea of every Christian.

Christians, pray for me to seek God with much earnestness, fervency, and frequently in all you knockings at our Father’s door, because I do very much stand in need thereof, for my work is great, my heart is vile, and the devil lieth at watch, the world would fain be saying, aha, aha, thus would we have it! And of myself, keep myself I cannot, trust myself I dare not; if God does not help me, I am sure it will not be long before my heart deceive, and the world have advantage of me. John Bunyan

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3 Responses to “John Bunyans’s Plea for Prayer”
  1. Nataly Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 4:08 am

    Hi, Kristine! I was wondering…if it isn’t too much trouble…my personal blog address is now homesteadblogger.com instead of homeschoolblogger. It’s still sheepyhollowfarmers though. The Homeschool Blogger one will be more for our schooling. If it’s not too much trouble to update the blogroll with my new blog instead of the old one? Thanks!

  2. DrillerAA Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I think you will find that Paul had a similar outlook. Paul never asked for believers to pray for his release from captivity or difficult circumstances. Rather he asked for prayer that he might be the bold witness in the place that he found himself. Paul realized that he might be the only opportunity some of his accusers would ever have to hear the truth of the Gospel and he asked for strength and courage to be used by God to golify Christ.
    Most of us ask for release from our circumstances rather than the strength, courage, and boldness to be God’s person in the place where we are.

  3. MamaArcher Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    You are so right! Yes, it is okay to pray for the physical needs that we have but God is more concerned with our spiritual needs. Sometimes our circumstance need to be as they are for our spiritual benefit. We should pray more for our spiritual condition and service to God rather than just our physical circumstances.