We need to learn how wrong it is to think of prayer as a way of getting something from God. People often think of prayer as a way of talking…
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“And here it is, I say it with sorrow, here it is that men fall short so miserably. Few indeed are to be found who pray: there are many who…
Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies within your power to train them to have a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what…
All of our warfare and all of our activity must take place in the context of constant, unceasing prayer. Just as a soldier on the battle line has to keep…
Yesterday a pious young minister called upon me, and said he wished I would write a short article on the duty of fasting. He observed, that among Christians of our…
Although God is everywhere present, yet he is invisible. He is an all-pervading Spirit, yet is perceived by none of our senses. We behold his glorious works in the heavens…
I am often asked, ‘If you believe God works all things according to the counsel of his will (Ephesians 1:11) and that his knowledge of all things past, present, and…
Read or Download (PDFs): Table of Contents, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 See Details of Book In one of the cathedrals of Northern Europe an exquisite group in high relief…
The Equipment ‘Remember that in the Levitical Law there is a frequent commemoration and charge given of the two daily sacrifices, the one to be offered up in the morning…
The Direction of the Mind ‘Thou oughtest to go to prayer, that thou mayest deliver thyself wholly up into the hands of God, with perfect resignation, exerting an act of…
The Engagement: Worship ‘We praise Thee…We give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O Lord God.’ -Book of Common Prayer. ‘Were there nothing else For which to praise the…
The Engagement: Confession ‘The garden of spices is sprinkled with red flowers.’-Heinrich Seuse. ‘It is a great and rare thing to have forgiveness in God discovered unto a sinful soul….It…
The Engagement: Request ‘Make me sensible of real answers to actual requests, as evidence of an interchange between myself on earth and my Saviour in heaven.’ -Thomas Chalmers. ‘O brother,…
The Hidden Riches of the Secret Place ‘Prayer is the means by which we obtain all the graces which rain down upon us from the Divine Fountain of Goodness and…
The Open Recompense ‘Jesus, Lord God from all eternity, Whom love of us brought down to shame, I plead Thy life with Thee, I plead Thy death, I plead Thy…
‘But I give myself unto prayer.‘ Psa 109: 4. I shall not here expatiate upon prayer, as it will be considered more fully in the Lord’s prayer. It is one…
IN the Scriptures a special operation of the Spirit is mentioned, by which he aids his people in the exercise of prayer; and it is spoken of as one that…
Again, it may be objected, ‘I do not know if what I pray for is agreeable to the will of God; how, then, can I be importunate?’ This is an…
‘What things soever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them’ (Mark 11:24) By the words ‘believe that ye receive them’: we understand,…
Ordinary Prayer. Scripture leaves the Christian no doubt about the duty of prayer. ‘You ought always to pray, and not to faint,’ our Lord said (Luke 18:1), and Paul exhorts,…
I have a question to offer you. It is contained in three words, Do you pray? The question is one that none but you can answer. Whether you attend public…
