This is also found in the “Apostolic Constitutions” (lib. vii, c. 49), and commences, Εὐλογητὸς εἶ. We give Chatfield’s rendering: Thou art blessed, O Lord, who nourishest me from my youth, Who givest food to all flesh. Fill our hearts with joy and gladness, That …
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ADDRESSES ON PRAYER AND PRAYER-MEETINGS: 4
GOD’S WILLINGNESS TO BLESS SAINTS AND SINNERS WE have been pleading with God. Prayer after prayer has knocked at Heaven’s gate, entreating for the conversion of souls, and the upbuilding of the church. I have no doubt that our prayer has been, in itself, acceptable …
ADDRESSES ON PRAYER AND PRAYER-MEETINGS: 3
BUSINESS PRAYERS DEAR FRIENDS,—I think that many of these Monday evening meetings for prayer will never be forgotten by us who have been privileged to be present at them. Perhaps, even throughout eternity, we shall gratefully recall the hallowed hours that we have spent here …
ADDRESSES ON PRAYER AND PRAYER-MEETINGS: 2
PRAYER-MEETINGS: AS THEY WERE, AND AS THEY SHOULD BE AMONG the faults, which have largely disappeared from prayer-meetings as they used to be conducted in my early days, these were the principal ones. First, the excessive length of the prayers. A brother would fix himself …
I THIRST FOR GRACE IN CHRIST
Merciful Lord God, you are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. You say “It is done” of things that are yet to come, so faithful and true are your promises. You have promised by your own word, out of your own mouth, …
ADDRESSES ON PRAYER AND PRAYER-MEETINGS: 1
“ONLY A PRAYER-MEETING!” WHAT a company we have here to-night! It fills my heart with gladness, and my eyes with tears of joy, to see so many hundreds of persons gathered together at what is sometimes wickedly described as “only a prayer-meeting.” It is good …
Prayer Before A Sermon on Gideon
PRAYER ALMIGHTY GOD, we would rest in thee. Thou hast welcomed us to thy rest, and made us, in promise, sharers of thy feast. The Lord will bless his people with peace, yea, with peace that passeth understanding. Thou dost cause men to possess their …
Communing With God
The Lord’s Prayer 5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received …
Commentary On John 16:23-27
In That Day You Shall Ask Me Nothing 22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. 23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. …