Let me share with you some thoughts expressed by Robert Munger, a professor at
Fuller Theological Seminary - these are not new, but they are his...
"The time soon came for us to pray. About a dozen of
us knelt in a circle. Would I share my condition? Would I admit my desperation?
Did I dare pray publicly for God to give me a special anointing and infilling
of the Spirit of God, even though it might mean a radical change in the direction
and association of my ministry? I had covenanted in writing before God in
that crisis night that I would do anything, everything, go
anywhere.
It was a kairos (crisis) moment. Finally it
was my time to pray. I told the gathered Christian brothers that I needed
to be filled with the Spirit and asked them to pray for me. They did —
earnestly, lovingly and with warm faith. Then I prayed, reminding God from
Scripture of our covenant relationship and what he had already promised to
give me for his glory.
When I finished praying, the brother next to me, a
big man whom I did not know but whose loving concern I could feel, put his
arm around me and said, "Lord, help Bob's unbelief!" That was a bit hard
to take, but I took it! I had often told inquirers that we receive Christ
not by feelings but by faith in his person and promise. Now, suddenly, my
own faith came alive. With a holy boldness I told God the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit that I was now receiving all of him and all that was meant in
John 7:37-39. I thanked God that he was doing what I had asked of him. Now
I knew for certain he would glorify Jesus Christ somehow even in
me."
http://youtu.be/Jyxlo64cOCw
