The professor took a long slow gaze back and forth at the class of incoming seminarians. The words stunned and stung and sobered the eager and naive students, piercing them with the astonishing authority of Jesus himself. On judgment day many will tell me, Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name. But I will reply, I never knew you. Prayer is the posturing place where all true kingdom work is authorized.
Prayer is fundamentally about posture.
And fundamentally, prayer is the posture of poverty. Inward seeking the transformation we need, Upward seeking the intimacy we need, and Outward seeking the ministry we need. Foster is careful to point out the journey of prayer begins in utter simplicity, with the epiphanic embrace of one s own weakness and neediness. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. Educational institutions aim for the bars of academic proficiency and intellectual competence.