The book study on Adam Hamilton’s Christianity’s Family Tree meets tonight to and will discuss the chapter on Anglicanism. Speaking of the importance of common prayer in the Anglican tradition, Hamilton writes:
Paul, through his epistles, repeatedly tells us of his own prayers and then commands us to pray. He says in Philippians 4:6-7, “Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” I cannot think of these verses without being reminded of the stanza of that old gospel song which says, “O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.”
Lately, I’ve had concerns and troubles on my mind, and I found that the idea of this suggestion itself, even before I began to put it into practice, lightened that burden.