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Herald of Holiness Volume 83 Number 07 (1994) Wesley D Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 7-1-1994 Herald of Holiness Volume 83 Number 07 (1994) Wesley D. Tracy (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Tracy, Wesley D. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 83 Number 07 (1994)" (1994). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 55. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/55 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. JU L Y 1 9 9 4 O God, you are my God.. my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you P b e n n e r l i b i your steadfast love is Rivet Nazarene t better than life . ^KANKAKEL ILL My soul clings to you. Psalm 63:1, 3, 8* AM I USING A FAULTY PRAYER BAROMETER? • • Together (hey could overcome any hardship. But can Alrbie ht ' onto the c The Shining Light Ruth Clover. The promise of land and a new life in the West was a shining light that beckoned, illuminating hearts and imaginations. Worth and Abbie knew well that it would be a struggle to carve out a new existence in the Saskatchewan Territory. Together they could overcome any adversity. But can Abbie hold on to the dream alone? HH083-411-514X $8.95 m A SHADOW LIGHT - FROM RUTH GLOVER A Shadow from the Heat Margaret Kelchner. Wes Scott leaves his home in a desperate search for his wayward sister, Testa. Deep into the vast reaches of the Southwest desert Testa's abuser flees, dragging her along—with Wes in relentless pursuit. With danger on every side, Wes must cling to God's promise that He will be a "shadow from the heat." Will that promise be enough? HH083-411-5158 $6.95 MARGARET E. KELCHNERI A Season Till Spring /. B. Perry. Jessica's life is going as planned with a promising career as a journalist in Southern California. Then she is forced to leave her life and love and return to her childhood home, where she must face bro­ ken dreams—and new beginnings. HH083-411-3937 $5.95 ftaclUK the world alone who would tend Camden through tbts dangertms territory? ; FATHER or THE Father of the Fatherless Margaret Kelchner. At the age of 14, Camden Cheney is sent to the fATf1CRLC55 Florida frontier, alone and unwanted, to homestead his uncle's land. Danger and discouragement await... and maybe friendship and love. HH083-411-4631 $8.95 To Order Call 1-800-877-0700 BEACON HILL PRESS OF KANSAS CITY A DIVISION OF NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Editor’s Choice What Is Contemplative Prayer? about ordinary working Christians mak­ ging, Monday Night Football, ceramics ing time for solitude, meditation, and class, or church committee meetings. contemplative prayer. Alden Sproull de­ Persistent commitment is required. If scribes contemplative prayer as “the not daily, at least regular periods of soli­ lived experience of grace against our tude must be created. Adversary’s major tools of noise, confu­ Don’t quit just because you could not sion, hurry, anxiety, and crowds” (see quiet your mind for one session. Prepare “Suffering Taught Me How to Pray” in you heart for prayer, but don't try to this issue). William Shannon says that it arrange too much. Let God be in charge. is “not the silence that is simply a pause Listen and wait for Him to set the si­ between moments of noise, but a silence lence on fire. Sometimes it will be a that is rich: filled with God, on fire with comforting, cozy fire. At other times, it God’s presence” (Silence on Fire, New may be a “consuming fire that empties Contemplative prayer is prayer at the York: Crossroad, 1991,12). us of all that is not God, so that in level of being rather than the level of It is kin to meditation, but not quite emptiness we may be filled with God’s talking and doing. Few words, some­ the same. In Christian meditation, the fullness” (Shannon, 166). times no words, are needed. Contempla­ mind focuses upon a noble thought, an Warning: In contemplative prayer tive prayer doesn’t try to wrestle with inspiring phrase of scripture, a penetrat­ you kneel in vulnerability before a “God God but simply basks in His presence. ing truth. In contemplative prayer, the to whom all hearts be open, all desires William Shannon points out that it is not soul waits before God and listens for the known, and from whom no secrets are a matter of expressing our dependence Voice which “speaks to us from our own hid.” If you hunger more for your secret on God but a matter of experiencing our silence, as that same Voice spoke to sins than for inner purity, if you wish to radical dependence on God. The wor­ Moses from out of the burning bush . nourish the pain of a past injustice more shiper silently, or at least with very few in the wordless silence of the desert . than you wish to nourish your starving words, experiences the love and peace The way God came to him changed soul, if you would rather feel sorry for of God. Often it takes the form of sim­ Moses’ life. For it set his silence on yourself because of some past grief than ply resting in God. fire” (Shannon, 14). In the prayers of confession and re­ Sproull says that the pentance, our failures or sins become contemplative prayer the focus. In intercession, the woes of “moves our lives to­ those for whom we pray hold the focus ward the desire of the of attention. In the prayer for sanctifica­ Potter, toward deep­ If you do not find yourself tion, our inner impurities may fill the ening intimacy and alone, you will not find yourself stage. Such prayers are necessary, but friendship with God.” these prayers that focus on ourselves Evangelicals have at all. Worse yet, you will not and the people we love have come to been rediscovering the dominate the prayer life of too many be­ fruitfulness of unhur­ find God, either. lievers. We must leam how to add con­ ried time alone with templative prayer if we are to find the God—just listening, life "hid with Christ in God." The focus praising, adoring, ab­ of contemplative prayer is God, God in sorbing His glory and holiness. In culti­ lose yourself in God, then contemplative Christ. It focuses on “the great Christian vating this kind of prayer, they put on, prayer is not for you. Keep the televi­ image that is Christ himself. His truth, like a robe, the meaning of “And all of us sion blaring, take a second job, intensify and all that has been well thought and with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the social whirl. That way, you can done and said in His name under the the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, avoid contemplative prayer and the guidance of the Spirit” (Westminster are being transformed into the same im­ healing light of God’s presence. This we Dictionary of Spirituality, 96). age” (2 Corinthians 3:18, NRSV). know to be true: “If you do not find I do not refer to the ascetic theology Do not wait until you fin d time for yourself alone, you will not find your­ of those mystics of ancient times who contemplative prayer—you never will. self at all.” Not even God can catch up could retreat to the desert for a life of You must m ake time for this sort of with someone who never stops to let his full-time prayer. Rather, I am talking prayer. Just like you make time for jog­ soul breathe. tq J uly 1994 1 Contents IULY 1994 VOLUME 83, NO. 7 FEATURES 16 How to Love God with a Meditating Mind STANLEY F. WALLACE 24 When Partners Can’t Pray Together SALLY HAMMOND 26 Providing Protection Through Prayer ALETHA HINTHORN 28 Am I Using a Faulty Prayer Barometer? LONNI COLLINS PRATT 30 Lost. But Never Alone PENNIE NICKELS HUGHES 34 I Was Hungry JEANETTE D. GARDNER 20 38 The Power of the One-Minute Prayer VICTOR M. PARACHIN CONTINUING COLUMNS 3 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, paul g. cunningham 6 Into the Word, roger l. hahn 7 Rhythms of the Spirit, m o r r is a. w e i g e l t 9 Over 60, c. ellen watts 15 Family Album, jerry and lynda cohagan 45 Close to Home, bryan M errill 46 Observer at Large, john c. bowling DEPARTMENTS 28 1 Editor’s Choice, w e s le y d. t r a c y 4 The Readers Write 10-14,42-44 N ew s, MARK GRAHAM, BRYAN MERRILL 33 The Question Box 37 Ten-Point Quiz 41 Evangelists’ Slates 47 Marked Copy, m a r k g r a h a m 48 Late News, mark graham PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FEATURE 20 Suffering Taught Me How to Pray, alden e. sproull POETRY COVER D. Icancne Tincr "Scripture quotation on the cover is taken trom the New Revised Standard 23 Yet I, MARCIA KRUGH LEASER Version o f the Bible (NRSV).
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