Philip Yancey's three stages of prayer amid Economic crisis:
The first stage is simple, an instinctive cry: "Help!"
The second stage, that of meditation and reflection.
The Bible asks three main questions about money:
(1) How did you get it? (Legally and justly or exploitatively?);
(2) What are you doing with it? (Indulging in luxuries or helping the needy?)
(3) What is it doing to you?
Some of Jesus' most trenchant parables and sayings go straight to the heart of that last question.
The third stage of prayer in crisis:
I need God's help in taking my eyes off my own problems in order to look with compassion on the truly desperate.
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