“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me! and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”—JOHN 10:27, 28 THAT is a glorious saying, a perfect and …
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ADDRESSES ON PRAYER AND PRAYER MEETINGS: 5
A Lord’s Day morning invocation OH! that the salvation of God were come out of Zion! Oh! that his arm were made bare, and that the strength of his righteousness were manifested! Our soul this day waiteth upon thee, O God! We anxiously pray for …
TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD 1
“IT IS GOOD FOR ME TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD” When in holy ecstacy the Psalmist sings: “I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplication,” he pours out his whole soul in his song, but the love can not be …
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
“He spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others.”—LUKE 18:9 ARE there none to whom this parable is applicable in the present day? Truly, if it were so, the ministers of Jesus would have comparatively a light …
UNCEASING PRAYER
1 THESSALONIANS 5:17.—“Pray without ceasing.” THE apostle Paul, in enjoining the duty of unceasing prayer upon all Christians, does not bind upon them a heavy burden which he himself will not move with one of his fingers. He does not regard it as a burden …
WATCHFULNESS AND PRAYERFULNESS
1 PETER 4:7.—“Watch unto prayer.” IN explaining this injunction of St. Peter, we shall show the importance of a watchful and prayerful spirit, by considering the innate disposition of the human heart. We shall find the argument derived from the fact that man is naturally …
A PRAYER AT DINNER TABLE
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 …
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 …