Teaching block: expectant prayer, waiting, and remembrance
- What does it look like to pray with expectation that God will act?
An extended discussion on praying with expectation that God is at work rather than forcing His hand; God showing up in small things (trapping a bug) to build trust for the big unanswered prayers; Habakkuk's opening complaint ('where have you been?') as honest prayer; Bob Goff's 'microwave vs. slow cooker' line; a host's mother's pile of remembrance stones; biblical memory rhythms (Israelites writing scripture on doorposts and foreheads, raising an Ebenezer, communion); and the comfort of church spires over towns. They land on remembrance as God's gift against forgetting.
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