Music Monday: What If His People Prayed?

What if? What if we trusted Him? What if we did what He calls us to do?

A pastor friend (actually, a brother in Christ I've never met) posted this quote:
“Faith is transferring your trust from your own efforts to the efforts of Christ. You were relying on other things to make you acceptable, but now you consciously begin relying on what Jesus did for your acceptance with God. All you need is nothing. If you think, ‘God owes me something for all my efforts,’ you are still on the outside.”
- Timothy Keller, How Can I Know God?

That applies to salvation, and the life of faith, but it also applies to ministry and the Church. We can try to perfect the music, sharpen the preaching, focus on programs, curriculum... and still fail if we fail to ask God to stir the hearts of His people, to call His elect to Himself, to call upon the Spirit to move hearts to repentance.

If true faith is to engage the heart of God as He has revealed Himself in His word, then we should pray more, and pray in continuity with His word. What would happen if we prayed?

PS - don't give up on serving, and doing. Be strong in the strength of the Lord and His might (Eph 6:10-12). Pray and Do.