Saturday 28 October 2017


PRAYER does not save anyone from trouble, GOD SAVES. God has CHOSEN PRAYER as the AVENUE through which we OBTAIN SALVATION— DELIVERANCE.

THE SCRIPTURE declares, “For everyone, whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

GOD DOES NOT SAVE unless we CALL UPON HIM to save. GOD does not FORCE the HELP He can give on anyone.

“Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.” — Psalm 118:5 

GOD HAS ORDAINED THAT THROUGH PRAYER man becomes a PARTICIPATOR in his own salvation. SALVATION is the WORK OF GOD, but this work is not WITHOUT the MAN.

EVERY WORK GOD does for man HE does it WORKING TOGETHER with the man. To man was given the PRIVILEDGE OF being GOD’S PARTNER.

“Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.”—Gen. 2:19,20.

AS GOD’S PARTNER, EVERTHING MAN DOES, he MUST DO IT with GOD. John 15:5. Any GODLESS VENTURE does not SURVIVE TIME.

GOD GAVE US LIFE, but we MUST WORK TOGETHER with HIM to ENJOY that LIFE and MAKE the MOST OUT OF IT. PRAYER is MAN WORKING WITH GOD.

ANY PERSON who SEEK deliverance from ANY TROUBLE, MUST OF A NECESSITY CALL OUT to the LORD for MERCY and FAVOR.

 “The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. — Psalms 145:18,19.

GOD’S RESPONSE is GUARANTEED when we CALL UPON HIM; IF we ASK, HE WILL ANSWER. The “DOOR OF SALVATION” will open FOR ANYONE WHO KNOCKS. If we SEEK to be FREE we shall find LIBERTY, IF you seek with ALL OUR HEART.

 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” — Matthew 7:7-8

OUR GREATEST TROUBLE IS SIN and we need SALVATION from SIN. Most people WONDER why they NEED SALVATION FROM SIN.

Everyone KNOWS BY INSTINCT that we are MADE OF MORE AND MADE FOR MORE, more than what the present CONDITIONS of LIFE MAKES US.

SCRIPTURE tells us we were CREATED for SUCCESS; for POWER and PERFECTION of MIND and BODY; for MASTERY over EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE of our LIFE; for ABUNDANCE of all GOOD THINGS. Genesis 1:26; Psalms 8:4-8; 144:3;    

But we know this is not the case in our lives. We are POWERLESS and OVERTAKEN, WE LACK and SUFFER WANT of EVERY KIND. We DON’T have CONTROL over our MIND, SOUL and BODY (Prov. 25:28).

St. Paul said, “For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do… For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.”  — Romans 7:15,18 

SCRIPTURES DECLARES that SIN is the PROBLEM (Rom 7:8,17). SIN is NOTORIOUS for the SHAME, the WEAKNESS, the LOSS and LACK we feel in OUR LIVES.

SIN ROB us the JOYS OF LIFE, PEACE OF MIND, and the REALIZATION of the PURPOSE of our lives. WE DESPERATELY NEED SALVATION FROM SIN.

Man is an INSTRUMENT of LIFE, and GOD ALONE IS LIFE. God pours His life into His instrument and every part of him, as the sun pours its heat into a tree and every part of it. SIN causes us to EXPRESS LIFE in a LIMITED WAY. SIN brings SEPERATION from FOUNTAIN OF LIFE and ALL THAT IS PERFECT IN GOD.

SIN— CHOOSING a CHEAPER BRAND of LIFE— a GODLESS LIFE, in IGNORANCE of the UNLIMITED POWER of GOD within us, our HERITAGE and HIGHER CALLING in GOD Gen. 2:9; 49:15. Psalm 4:2

IN IGNORANCE we have “SOLD and DESPISED our BIRTHRIGHT” to a “SUPPLANTER—SATAN”. We say to ourselves “what profit shall this birthright be to me”. Gen. 25:32 

GOD gave us LIFE. HE INTENDS for us to be HIS FELLOW-WORKERS but we THINK this LIFE as GOD’S FELLOW-WORKERS is a BURDEN instead of a BLESSING.

“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” — Prov. 10:22

GOD has HONORED and BLESSED us by making us FELLOW-WORKERS together with HIM. THIS BLESSING will MAKES us RICH in GOOD WORKS, in WISDOM, in TRUTH, in RIGHTEOUSNESS, in HOLINESS, in JOY, in HONOR and in SUBSTANCE. This BLESSING is what MAKES us SUCCESS on this EARTH. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE GOD, because these QUALITIES are HIS NATURE.

 “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.” — Proverbs 13:7 

We TRY to MAKE OURSELVES RICH and we become destitute of ALL GOD-LIKENESS as a result (Gen 3:5). Should we HUMBLE ourselves as GOD’S FELLOW-WORKERS, we would obtain GREAT RICHES of the POWER and GLORY OF GOD.

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” — Romans 3:23

The LIFE we have BARGAINED FOR with the DEVIL, is a LIFE MIXED with GOOD and EVIL, TOIL and SORROW, PAIN and SUFFERING. We have been CHEATED and DECEIVED.

We HAVE BECOME SERVANTS under SIN, INSTEAD of PRINCES under GOD (Rom. 7:14). And now with GREAT SORROW and TEARS we seek our BIRTHRIGHT. Gen. 25:31-34; 27:36.

SIN is a CAGE that LIMITS us. We are as HAPPY and JOYFUL when we get the OPPORTUNITY to MAXIMIZE our POTENTIAL. Sin TAKES ALL of this AWAY. IT DESTROYS RELATIONSHIPS which is KEY to ALL SUCCESS, especially our RELATIONSHIP with GOD.

GOD’S SALVATION is the KEY. SALVATION means LIBERTY. IN SALVATION God DELIVER us from the POWER and DOMINION OF SIN, the TENDENCY to SIN, HEALS the SCARS OF SIN, REPAIRS THE BREACH in our RELATIONSHIP with HIM, RESTORES US to FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM, CREATES IN US is NEW NATURE, ENLIGHTEN our DARKNESS, MAKES US WHOLE IN SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY, BRING US into GREATER BLESSING in CHRIST JESUS.

It is only in LIBERTY we can INCREASE and PROSPER; in CAPTIVITY we are DISADVANTAGED, IMPOVERISHED and will PERISH. 

God has GENEROUSLY granted us LIBERTY IN CHRIST JESUS. This LIBERTY is the only CONDITION OF LFE in which we can THRIVE, MAXIMIZE our TRUE POTENTIAL and REALIZE our HIGHER CALLING as SONS OF GOD. Gal. 4:5-6; Rom. 8:16-17; Gal. 4:1-2; Rev. 21:7.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed” — Luke 4:18

SALVATION IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR EVERYONE. We can never underestimate the VALUE of PRAYER.

“If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright [by faith], surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.  Job 8:5,6; Rom. 5:1. Addition mine. 

YOUR SALVATION STARTS WITH A PRAYER.

 “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” — Romans 10:9




A SAMPLE PRAYER:

GOD AND FATHER OF JESUS CHRIST. I CALL UPON YOU in need of SALVATION FROM SIN, the SALVATION which you OFFER through YOUR SON, JESUS.

I ASK for YOUR PARDON and FORGIVENESS for TRANSGRESSIONS I have COMMITTED in my IGNORANCE and STURBORNESS OF MY HEART.

DELIVER ME OH GOD, from the DEPRAVITY OF my SIN, the OPPRESSION of SIN and SET me FREE from ITS CAPTIVITY. BRING ME OUT of my DARKNESS into your LIGHT. BRING me OUT of SEPERATION INTO FELLOWHSHIP with YOU and MAKE me WHOLE AGAIN.

I BELIEVE JESUS went to THE CROSS with ME and DIED so I MIGHT DIE TO SIN. I BELIEVE JESUS PAID the PRICE for MY RECOVERY with HIS BLOOD. I BELIEVE JESUS WAS BURIED TOGETHER WITH ME. JESUS ROSE from THE DEAD, that I might RISE from DEATH into TRUE LIFE.

I UNDERSTAND that my SALVATION is NOT BASED on my WORKS but on THE SACRIFICIAL WORK of JESUS on THE CROSS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARDON, FORGIVENESS AND SALVATION! I AM FREE and SAVED TODAY!

THROUGH PRAYER WE OBTAIN SALVATION

Friday 20 October 2017





Some people ignorantly ask “what profit can we derive from prayer?”, we say to ourselves, “We are as happy as flesh and blood can make us: our kingdom is of this world; we wish for no other portion than that which we have.” Others say that since God is loving and good, He will give us all the things we need and will accomplish His good will whether we pray or not.
“What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?”— Job. 21:15

We do ourselves disfavor we fail to utilize the power of prayer. To live without prayer is to live without communion or communication with God. Communication with God is the source of our hope and strength as we journey through this earth. Imagine a world with no knowledge of God or means of communicating with Him. When we live without prayer, we live away from God, and to separate ourselves from him as far as is possible for the human being to escape from his Maker.

There is one thing for sure. We cannot go away from the power of God, for that is around us at all times, and everywhere. We are leaning on his arm, upheld by his hand, consciously or unconsciously, at every moment. We cannot go away from the love of God. For that pursues, and surrounds, and blesses us still, however little we may deserve it. But we may go away from God by turning away from him, by forgetting him and neglecting him. We have the power of thus turning away, of closing our eyes inwardly, and opening them only outwardly; closing them toward heaven, and opening them toward earth.

We have this terrible freedom of escaping, if we choose, from the restraining sense of the Divine Presence, and so doing our own will, without the immediate rebuke of conscience.

Most men are thus turned away, and it is this which makes it hard to pray and easy to err. No man can pray earnestly and walk in error readily at the same time. We must either leave off erring, or leave off praying.

Consequently, most men, whether they are erring or outwardly decent and upright, are really alienated from God. The proof of it is easy. It is, that, though He is always near to them, they are not aware of it, and the thought and sense of his nearness never restrains them from committing evil. The presence of a good man will restrain the tongue of the ribald and the profane, — the presence of the most insignificant human being influences them more or less, — but the presence of the Deity does not influence them at all.

Therefore, it is evident that they do not feel His presence, —that they are alienated from Him.

Now, when we have repented of our sins, and determined to lead an upright life, and have begun to do so, we shall nevertheless find that this alienation from God has not become impossible. On the other hand, we shall find, in all probability, that, by allowing ourselves to commit apparently slight transgressions we have again lost the quick sense of the surrounding God, and wandered again from our Father’s house.

In this case prayer becomes a matter of necessity, and prayer not as a gush of feeling, not as an indulgence of sentiment, but prayer as an act, an earnest act of turning to God, and holding the soul open to his influences, and to be fed and renewed by his inflowing life.

When a man desires a quiet, peaceful and successful life, soon finds out that he cannot live without prayer. And so he prays daily and hourly, not as a duty, but as a necessity, — prays when it is necessary, be it seldom or often, — prays till the need is supplied, till the hunger has ceased, till the empty soul is filled, till his weakness has been made strength, till his weariness has changed to inward rest, till his ideas takes shape.

And then, having prayed from necessity, he prays again spontaneously, the prayer of thanksgiving and gratitude, the acknowledgment of this new life and opportunities.

And when not praying from necessity, or for himself, he prays for others; he prays for the kingdom of God, for the coming of peace, truth, and love to the world.

He prays for the ignorant, the poor, the afflicted, for the slave and the oppressed, for the vicious and abandoned, for the infidel and the heathen. Then also he finds pleasure in remembering before God individuals. He intercedes for his friends, according to what he supposes their needs, temptations, and trials may he. He enjoys bringing them, one by one, before the mercy-seat, and doing for them in prayer what he can do for them in no other way.

Thus we pray, from such motives as these. Out of necessity, because we are away from God, and are therefore weak, and must pray to gain strength; because we are wretched, and must pray in order to gain comfort. Out of gratitude, because our heart is happy, our cup full, our life advancing; and joy overflows into prayer.

Out of love, because we wish to help our brother, our sister, and we cannot help them in any other way than this. Out of interest in Christ’s cause, out of wish to make his kingdom, out of faith in the good time near at hand. Out of penitence, because we cannot find peace till we go to our Father and say, “God, be merciful to me your wayward child!”

THE NECESSITY AND ADAVANTAGE OF PRAYER #1

Thursday 12 October 2017

Prayer is a natural function in human life, but such a thought should keep us from yielding too easily to disbelief or discouragement when we have difficulty with prayer in our individual experience.


“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.” Psalm 22:1-5


David felt discouraged when nothing seems to result from his praying. He had three troubles with God: He cannot make God respond to Him, his prayer brings him no relief from his difficulties and even persistency in prayer accomplishes nothing.


Then he remem­bers that prayer is not something with which he, for the first time in history, is experimenting. “In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them”.

He sees that the accumulating testimony of his fathers in all ages bears wit­ness to the power of prayer. He therefore sensibly concludes that he would better not ditch a few months of individual failure in praying against the general experience of the race.


In view of what prayer has meant to all peoples, he sees that probably the trouble is with himself and not with prayer. He sets himself therefore to understand prayer as much as he can, and in the 22nd verse of the Psalm, he begins the recital of the victorious outcome: “I will declare thy name unto my brethren: In the midst of the assembly will I praise thee.”


May God make us as sensible as this psalmist and give us as real a triumph!


A word of prayer

O God, Who is, and was, and is to come, before whose face the generations rise and pass away; age after age the living seek You, and find that of Your faithfulness there is no end. Our fathers in their pilgrimage walked by Your guidance, and rested on Your compassion; still to their children be the cloud by day, the fire by night. In our manifold temptations, You alone knows and is ever nigh: in sorrow, Your love revives the fainting soul; in our prosperity and ease, it is Your Spirit only that can wean us from our pride and keep us low. You are sole Source of peace and righteousness! take now the veil from every heart; and join us in one communion with Your prophets and saints who have trusted in You, and were not ashamed. Not of our worthiness, but of Your tender mercy, hear our prayer. Amen. — James Martineau (1805-1900).

WHEN WE ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES WITH PRAYER

Wednesday 11 October 2017


Another practical reason for failure in prayer is found in impatience. When we pray for something and see no immediate results, we impatiently call the practice worthless and quit.


Suppose that a man makes a dash at friendship and after throwing off a few trail conversations should dogmatically conclude that there was nothing in friendship after all.

But friendship is not really tested in so dashing and occasional a way; friendship is rather a life to be lived, habitually, persistently—and its results are cumulative with the years.


So prayer is a cumulative life of friendship with God.


Luke 11:1-4, 

 “And it happened as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught His disciples. And He said to them, When you pray, say: Our Father, who is in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in Heaven, so also on the earth. Give us day by day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”


Note that when the disciples of Jesus heard Him pray, they became aware that praying like the way Jesus prayed was nothing they could drift into, or dash into just in a moment of receiving special inspiration. Most people go to prayer only when they received inspiration or motivation to do so.


The kind of prayer that Jesus taught the disciples shows that He was one acquainted with God. And such acquaintance with God is the result of assiduous practice of prayer.


“It is a great art to commune with God,” said Thomas a Kempis. We cannot expect to take a try at a violin once in a while and yet make much of it. But see how we treat this finer instrument of prayer!

PRACTICAL REASONS WE FAIL TO MAXIMIZE PRAYER #4

Monday 9 October 2017

Our failure to think of prayer as a privilege may be partly due to the fact that we can pray any time, “in every place.”


“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.  I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling.” 1 Timothy 2:1-6,8


The door of prayer is open so continuously that we fail to avail ourselves to an opportunity which is always there. There are plenty of people in London who never have seen the inside of Westminster Abbey, partly because they could go there any day.


Consider then the aptness of Austin Phelps’ illustration: “In the vestibule of St. Peter’s, at Rome, is a doorway, which is walled up and marked with a cross. It is opened but four times in a century. On Christmas Eve, once in twenty-five years, the Pope approaches it in princely state, with the retinue of cardinals in attendance, and begins the demolition of the door, by striking it three times with a silver hammer. When the passage is opened, the multitude pass into the nave of the cathedral, and up to the altar, by an avenue which the majority of them never entered thus before, and never will enter thus again.



Imagine that the way to the God’s Throne of Grace were like the Porta Sancta (Holy Door, an entrance portal located within the Papal major basilicas in Rome), inaccessible, save once in a quarter of a century.


Conceive that it were now ten years since you, or I, or any other person, had been permitted to pray: and that fifteen long years must drag themselves away, before we could venture again to approach God; and that, at the most, we could not hope to pray more than two or three times in a lifetime!
 
With what solicitude we should wait for the coming of that Holy Day!” It may be that through sheer negligence and the deceiving influence of good but weak intentions, we are missing one of life’s great privileges, because it is so commonplace.



Let’s share a word of prayer from J. H. Jowett.


"O Lord, keep me sensitive to the grace that is round about me. May the familiar not become neglected! May I see your goodness in my daily bread, and may the comfort of my home take my thoughts to the mercy seat of God!"

PRACTICAL REASONS WE FAIL TO MAXIMIZE PRAYER #3


Prayer has failed in some because it has always appeared to them as an obligation rather than a privilege. When they think of it they think of a duty to be done. 

Contrast with this the glowing words of the sixty-third Psalm:


“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.” Psalms 63:1-8


Prayer here is not a burden to be borne, an obligation to be fulfilled, something that is due to God and must be paid. Prayer is a privilege; like friendship and family love and laughter, great books, great music, and great art, it is one of life’s opportunities to be grasped thankfully and used gladly. The man who misses the deep meanings of prayer has not so much refused an obligation; he has robbed himself of life’s supreme privilege—friendship with God.


Let’s share a word of prayer adapted from George Matheson


O God, my Gracious Father, Who, in all events of life, are knocking at the door of my heart, help me to respond to you. I would not be driven blindly as the stars over their courses.
  I would not be made to work out good will unwillingly, to fulfill your law unintelligently, to obey your mandates unsympathetically. I would take the events of my life as good and perfect gifts from you; I would receive even the sorrows of life as disguised gifts from you. I would have my heart open at all times to receive—at morning, noon, and night; in spring, and summer, and winter. Whether you come to me in sunshine or rain, I would take you into my heart joyfully. 
You are yourself more than sunshine, You are yourself compensation from rain; it is You and your gifts I crave; knock, and I shall open unto you. 

Amen

PRACTICAL REASONS WE FAIL TO MAXIMIZE PRAYER #2


Let’s consider some of the practical reasons for our failure to make the most out of our power to pray. Our failure in prayer is partly due to the prevailing temper of our generation, which in its splendid enthusiasm for work has neglected that culture of prayer, on which in the end the finest quality of spirit and the deepest resources of power must depend. This is one of the reasons why our generation is marked by practical efficiency and spiritual shallowness.
 
May we enjoy the best gains of this efficient age but at the same time recover the practice of real communion of God

Failure to cultivate our power of prayer goes back in many to childish ideas of the meaning of prayer, which, never altogether outgrown, hamper us and make our praying seem unreasonable and futile.
There are some who still think of prayer in terms of childish supplications to a divine Santa Claus.

“And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all. And he took a little child, and set him in the midst of them: and taking him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. Mark 9:35-37.”

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things”. I Cor. 13:11

When Jesus sets as our ideal the childlike qualities of sincerity and humility, he is not asking us to be childish. Many foolish prayers are offered by the well-meaning but unintelligent with the excuse that they are childlike in their simple trust. But we are grown-up children, and have an obligation to exercise our intelligence, to outgrow infantile ideas of prayer that belittle it, and to enlarge our conceptions of the significance which fellowship with God may have for life. To pray to God as though he were Santa Claus is childish; but a man may still be childlike in his faith.

Childishness in prayer is chiefly evidenced in an overweening desire to beg things from God, and a corresponding failure to desire above all else the friendship of God himself.

There ought to be a growth in our relationship with God which occurs in the normal fellowship between a child and his parents. At first the child wants the parents’ gifts, and thinks of the parents largely in terms of the things which they do for his comfort and pleasure. He is not able yet to appreciate the value of the parents' personalities.

A sure sign of wholesome maturity, however, is found in the child’s deepening understanding of the parents themselves his increasing delight in their friendship, thankfulness for their care, acceptance of their ideals, reliance on their counsel, and joy in their approval. The child grows through desiring things from his parents into love of his parents, for their own sakes.

“A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living. . . . But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.” Luke 15: 11-13, 17-19.

Note the change of prayer from “Give me” to “Make me.” Whether through experience of sorrow or hard practical struggle we come to a real maturity, we always tend to grow out of crying to God “Give me” into the deeper prayer “Make me.” In a word we cease valuing God merely because of the things he may give, and we come into the love of God himself and the desire to be made over by him.

Let’s share a word of prayer (Adapted from Thomas A Kempis, 1379 - 1471)

Grant me, O most loving father, to rest in you above all, above all health and beauty, above all glory and honor, above all power and dignity, above all knowledge and subtilty, above all riches and art, above all fame and praise, above all sweetness and comfort, above all hope and promise, above all gifts and favors that you can give and impart to us, above all joy that the mind of man can receive and feel; finally, above angels and archangels, and above all the heavenly host, above all things visible and invisible, and above all that you are not, O my God. It is too small and unsatisfying, whatsoever you bestow on me apart from You, or reveals to me, or promises, whilst you are not seen, and not fully obtained. For surely my heart cannot fully rest, nor be entirely contented, unless it rest in you. 

Amen.

PRACTICAL REASONS WE FAIL TO MAXIMIZE PRAYER #1

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