January 2010
13 posts
“No learning can make up for the failure to pray.
No earnestness, no diligence,...”
– E.M. Bounds
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of...”
– Brother Lawrence
“The men who have done most for God in this world have been early on their knees....”
– E.M. Bounds
“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater...”
– E.M. Bounds
“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and...”
– Corrie ten Boom
Regarding Persevering In Prayer
I look at a stone cutter hammering away at a rock a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it splits in two. I know it was not the one blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
[See the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18, a parable Jesus told his disciples to show them that they should always pray and not give up.]
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John Baillie's Prayer. What Do You Think?
Holy God, to whose service I long ago dedicated my soul and life, I grieve and lament before thee that I am still so prone to sin and so little inclined to obedience;
So much attached to the pleasure of sense, so negligent of things spiritual:
So prompt to gratify my body, so slow to nourish my soul:
So greedy for present delight, so indifferent to lasting blessedness:
So fond of idleness, so...
“For He will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to...”
“You will pray to Him and He will hear you …”
– Job 22:27
“… How gracious He will be when you cry for help! As soon as He hears, He...”
– Isaiah 30:19
“If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
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Matthew 21:22
WatchI have had some people ask me why their prayers are not answered. I have some thoughts on the topic, and I trust that this teaching will give you something to ponder this week.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will...”
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