Prayer Resource

On Monday Anglican leaders from the Global South will be gathering in Singapore. While there are many items on their agenda, including the pressing issues of religious persecution, poverty and HIV-AIDS, perhaps the most newsworthy item from our perspective will be a discussion as to how to respond to the recent direction of the Episcopal Church. Two Primates (senior archbishops) of the Anglican Communion have already written to the Archbishop of Canterbury requesting a special meeting of the Primates (with the Canadian and American Primates absent) to deal with the situation. Please pray for these godly leaders as they meet over the next week. A very helpful and informative prayer guide is available here.

Aside from offering valuable information and prayer requests for various provinces of the Anglican Communion, it includes some challenging quotations about prayer, for example:

The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something
but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with Him,
and living with Him in perpetual communion.
Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want;
it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
Prayer is not asking, but union with God.
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help
in the varying needs of our lives.
Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself, the Source of all life.
The true spirit of prayer does not consist in asking for blessings,
but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings,
and in living a life of fellowship with Him.

—Sadhu Sundar Singh

My only regret is that this is the only quote that originates in the Global South, when they have so much to teach us abvout prayer.