Teach Us To Pray
Praying to the Father
LESSONSCRIPTURECHARACTER COUNT 1: Why Pray?Luke 18:1-84,049 2: True PrayerLuke 18:9-143,663 3: How Jesus PrayedLuke 11:14,429 4: Prayer to the FatherLuke 11:2-43,859 5: His Name is HolyLuke 11:2-44,474 6: A Cry of HopeLuke 11:2-44,132 7: Praying for…
Lesson 1: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 1
Lesson 1: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 1Matthew 6:9-13 - Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts…
Lesson 2: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 2
Lesson 2: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 2 James 5:16 - Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. “Lord, teach us to pray.…
Lesson 3: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 3
Lesson 3: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 3Psalm 119:9-16 - How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart,…
Lesson 4: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 4
Lesson 4: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 4John 17:22-26 - The glory that You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You…
Lesson 5: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 5
Lesson 5: Lord, Teach Us to Pray, part 5What do you think, my beloved fellow-disciples? Would it not be just what we need, to ask the Master for a month to give us a course of special lessons on the art of prayer? As we meditate on the words He spok…
Lesson 6: In Spirit and in Truth, part 1
Lesson 6: In Spirit and in Truth, part 1John 4:23-24 - But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who…
Lesson 7: In Spirit and in Truth, part 2
Lesson 7: In Spirit and in Truth, part 2Philippians 3:3 - For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh.“God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spiri…
Lesson 8: In Spirit and in Truth, part 3
Lesson 8: In Spirit and in Truth, part 3John 7:37-39 - On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart…
Lesson 9: In Spirit and in Truth, part 4
Lesson 9: In Spirit and in Truth, part 4John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”What Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, she could not at once understand. Pentecost was needed to reveal its full meanin…
Lesson 10: Pray to Your Father Who is in Secret, part 1
Lesson 10: Pray to Your Father Who is in Secret, part 1Matthew 6:6 - But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.After Jesus had called His first…
Lesson 11: Pray to Your Father Who is in Secret, part 2
Lesson 11: Pray to Your Father Who is in Secret, part 2We ended our previous lesson with the words that every thought or petition we breathe out will be simple, hearty, childlike trust in the Father. This is how He teaches us to pray. He brings us…
Lesson 12: Pray to Your Father Who is in Secret, part 3
Lesson 12: Pray to Your Father Who is in Secret, part 3“And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.” Here Jesus assures us that secret prayer cannot be fruitless; its blessing will show itself in our life. We have but in secret, alone with…
Lesson 13: After This Manner Pray, part 1
Lesson 13: After This Manner Pray, part 1“After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven.” Matthew. 6:9.Every teacher knows the power of example. He not only tells the child what to do and how to do it, but shows him how it really can…
Lesson 14: After This Manner Pray, part 2
Lesson 14: After This Manner Pray, part 2The lesson is of more importance than we think. In true worship the Father must be first, must be all. The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that HE may be glorified, the richer will the blessing…
Lesson 15: After This Manner Pray, part 3
Lesson 15: After This Manner Pray, part 3“Your kingdom come.” The Father is a King and has a kingdom. The son and heir of a king has no higher ambition than the glory of his father’s kingdom. In time of war or danger this becomes his passion; he can…
Lesson 16: After This Manner Pray, part 4
Lesson 16: After This Manner Pray, part 4“And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.” As bread is the first need of the body, so is forgiveness for the soul. And the provision for the one is as sure as for the other. We are child…
Lesson 17: The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer, part 1
Lesson 17: The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer, part 1Matthew 7:7-8 - 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…
Lesson 18: The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer part 2
Lesson 18: The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer part 2“Ask, and it shall be given you.” Christ has no mightier stimulus to persevering prayer in His school than this. As a child has to prove a sum to be correct, so the proof that we have prayed cor…
Lesson 19: The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer part 3
Lesson 19: The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer part 3There may be cases in which the answer is a refusal, because the request is not according to God’s Word, as when Moses asked to enter Canaan. But still, there was an answer: God did not leave Hi…
Lesson 20: The Infinite Fatherliness of God, part 1
Lesson 20: The Infinite Fatherliness of God, part 1Matthew 7:9-11 - Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts…
Lesson 21: The Infinite Fatherliness of God, part 2
Lesson 21: The Infinite Fatherliness of God, part 2To see what this childlike living is, in which childlike asking and believing have their ground, we have only to notice what our Lord teaches in the Sermon on the Mount of the Father and His childre…
Lesson 22: The Infinite Fatherliness of God, part 3
Lesson 22: The Infinite Fatherliness of God, part 3This is the one chief thought on which Jesus dwells here, and which He would have all His scholars take in. He would have us see that the secret of effectual prayer is to have the heart filled with…
Lesson 23: The All-Comprehensive Gift part 1
Lesson 23: The All-Comprehensive Gift part 1Luke 11:13 – “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lor…
Lesson 24: The All-Comprehensive Gift part 2
Lesson 24: The All-Comprehensive Gift part 2This truth naturally suggests the thought that this first and chief gift of God must be the first and chief object of all prayer. For every need of the spiritual life this is the one thing needful, the Hol…
Lesson 25: The All-Comprehensive Gift part 3
Lesson 25: The All-Comprehensive Gift part 3And now, the lesson Jesus teaches us today in His school is this: That the Father is just longing to give Him to us if we will but ask in the childlike dependence on what He says: “If you know to give good…
Lesson 26: The Boldness of God’s Friends, part 1
Lesson 26: The Boldness of God’s Friends, part 1Luke 11:5-8 - And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend, will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have no…
Lesson 27: The Boldness of God’s Friends, part 2
Lesson 27: The Boldness of God’s Friends, part 2It is when we draw near to God as the friend of the poor and the perishing that we may count on His friendliness; the righteous man who is the friend of the poor is very specially the friend of God. Th…
Lesson 28: The Boldness of God’s Friends, part 3
Lesson 28: The Boldness of God’s Friends, part 3But not always at once. The one thing by which man can honor and enjoy his God is faith. Intercession is part of faith’s training-school. There our friendship with men and with God is tested. There it…
Lesson 29: Prayer provides Laborers, part 1
Lesson 29: Prayer provides Laborers, part 1Matthew 9:37-38 - Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”The Lord fre…
Lesson 30: Prayer provides Laborers, part 2
Lesson 30: Prayer provides Laborers, part 2How little Christians really feel and mourn the need of laborers in the fields of the world so white to the harvest. And how little they believe that our labor-supply depends on prayer, that prayer will rea…
Lesson 31: Prayer provides Laborers, part 3
Lesson 31: Prayer provides Laborers, part 3The other blessing to be asked for will not be less. Every believer is a laborer; not one of God’s children has not been redeemed for service and does not have his work waiting. It must be our prayer that…
School of Prayer
From the work of Andrew Murray SCHOOL OF PRAYER CHARACTER COUNT CHARACTER COUNT SCHOOL OF PRAYER - Part 1Lesson 50: United prayer 3 3,657Lesson 1: Teach us to pray 1 2,200Lesson 51: Preserving Prayer 1 3,40…
Lesson 32: Prayer Must Be Definite, part 1
Lesson 32: Prayer Must Be Definite, part 1Mark 10:51 - And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”The blind man had been crying out aloud, and that a great deal, “Son…
Lesson 33: Prayer must be Definite, part 2
Lesson 33: Prayer must be Definite, part 2We all know with what surprise the whole civilized world heard of the way in which trained troops were repulsed by the Transvaal Boers at Majuba. And to what did they owe their success? In the armies of Euro…
Lesson 34: Prayer must be Definite, part 3
Lesson 34: Prayer must be Definite, part 3It may be asked, is it not best to make our wishes known to God, and then to leave it to Him to decide what is best, without seeking to assert our will? By no means. This is the very essence of the prayer of…
Lesson 35: The Faith that Takes, part 1
Lesson 35: The Faith that Takes, part 1Mark 11:24 - Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.What a promise! so large, so Divine, that our little hearts cannot take it in, and in every…
Lesson 36: The Faith that Takes, part 2
Lesson 36: The Faith that Takes, part 2“All things whatsoever you pray and ask for.” It is in prayer that these “all things” are to be brought to God, to be asked and received of Him. The faith that receives them is the fruit of the prayer. In one…
Lesson 37: The Faith that Takes, part 3
Lesson 37: The Faith that Takes, part 3“And you shall have them.” That is, the gift which we first hold in faith as bestowed upon us in heaven will also become ours in personal experience. But will it be needful to pray longer if once we know we hav…
Lesson 38: The Secret of believing-Prayer, part 1
Lesson 38: The Secret of believing-Prayer, part 1Mark 11:22-24 - And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes th…
Lesson 39: The Secret of believing-Prayer, part 2
Lesson 39: The Secret of believing-Prayer, part 2And even so faith is also the ear through which the voice of God is always heard and intercourse with Him kept up. It is through the Holy Spirit that the Father speaks to us; the Son is the Word, the…
Lesson 40: The Secret of believing-Prayer, part 3
Lesson 40: The Secret of believing-Prayer, part 3Just note how distinctly this comes out in the saints of old. Every special exhibition of the power of faith was the fruit of a special revelation of God. See it in Abraham: “And the word of the Lord…
Lesson 41: The Cure of Unbelief, part 1
Lesson 41: The Cure of Unbelief, part 1Matthew 17:19-20 - Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of…
Lesson 42: The Cure of Unbelief, part 2
Lesson 42: The Cure of Unbelief, part 2But such want of faith must have a cause too. Well might the disciples have asked, “And why could we not believe? Our faith has cast out devils before this: why have we now failed in believing?” The Master proc…
Lesson 43: The Cure of Unbelief, part 3
Lesson 43: The Cure of Unbelief, part 3This just brings us back again to the lesson we learned when Jesus, before telling us to believe that we receive what we ask, first said, “Have faith in God.” It is God, the living God, into whom our faith must…
Lesson 44: The Cure of Unbelief, part 4
Lesson 44: The Cure of Unbelief, part 4Now follows a still wider application. Prayer is the reaching out after God and the unseen; fasting, the letting go of all that is of the seen and temporal. While ordinary Christians imagine that all that is no…
Lesson 45: Prayer and Love, part 1
Lesson 45: Prayer and Love, part 1Mark 11:25 - And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.These words follow immediately on the great prayer…
Lesson 46: Prayer and Love, part 2
Lesson 46: Prayer and Love, part 2The first lesson taught here is that of a forgiving disposition. We pray, “Forgive, even as we have forgiven.” Scripture says, “Forgive one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.” God’s full and free forgi…
Lesson 47: Prayer and Love, part 3
Lesson 47: Prayer and Love, part 3We may gather these thoughts into a third lesson: In our life with men the one thing on which everything depends is love. The spirit of forgiveness is the spirit of love. Because God is love, He forgives: it is only…
Lesson 48: The Power of United Prayer, part 1
Lesson 48: The Power of United Prayer, part 1Matthew 18:19-20 - Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I amo…
Lesson 49: The Power of United Prayer, part 2
Lesson 49: The Power of United Prayer, part 2The second mark is the gathering in, or into, the Name of Jesus. We shall afterwards have much more to learn of the need and the power of the Name of Jesus in prayer. Here our Lord teaches us that the Nam…
Lesson 50: The Power of United Prayer, part 3
Lesson 50: The Power of United Prayer, part 3In the Apostle Paul we see very distinctly what a reality his faith in the power of united prayer was. To the Romans he writes (Romans 15:30), “I beseech you, brethren, by the love of the Spirit, that you…
Lesson 51: The Power of Persevering Prayer, part 1
Lesson 51: The Power of Persevering Prayer, part 1Luke 18:1-8 - And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And…
Lesson 52: The Power of Persevering Prayer, part 2
Lesson 52: The Power of Persevering Prayer, part 2To enable us, when the answer to our prayer does not come at once, to combine quiet patience and joyful confidence in our persevering prayer, we must specially try to understand the two words in whic…
Lesson 53: The Power of Persevering Prayer, part 3
Lesson 53: The Power of Persevering Prayer, part 3Our great danger in this school of the answer delayed is the temptation to think that, after all, it may not be God’s will to give us what we ask. If our prayer is according to God’s word, and under…
Lesson 54: Prayer in harmony with the being of God, part 1
Lesson 54: Prayer in harmony with the being of God, part 1John 11:41-42 – …Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I knew that You always hear me, but I said this because the people standing around, that they may believe that You sent Me.Psalm…
Lesson 55: Prayer in harmony with the being of God, part 2
Lesson 55: Prayer in harmony with the being of God, part 2In seeking an answer to such questions, we find the key in the very being of God, in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. If God was only one Person, shut up within Himself, there could be no tho…
Lesson 56: Prayer in harmony with the being of God, part 3
Lesson 56: Prayer in harmony with the being of God, part 3If the thought comes that this liberty and power of the Son to act upon the Father is at variance with the immutability of the Divine decrees, let us not forget that there is not with God as…
Lesson 57: Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man, part 1
Lesson 57: Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man, part 1Matthew 22:20 - And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”Genesis 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...”“Whose is this image?” It…
Lesson 58: Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man, part 2
Lesson 58: Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man, part 2With sin, all destinies underwent a terrible change—man’s fall brought all creation under the curse. With redemption, the beginning was seen of a glorious restoration. No sooner had God beg…
Lesson 59: Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man, part 3
Lesson 59: Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man, part 3What sin destroyed, grace has restored. What the first Adam lost, the second has won back. In Christ man regains his original position, and the Church, abiding in Christ, inherits the promi…
Lesson 60: Power for Praying and Working, part 1
Lesson 60: Power for Praying and Working, part 1John 14:12-13 - Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my na…
Lesson 61: Power for Praying and Working, part 2
Lesson 61: Power for Praying and Working, part 2He who would work must pray: it is in prayer that the power for work is obtained. He that in faith would do the works that Jesus did, must pray in His Name. As long as Jesus was here on earth, He Himse…
Lesson 62: Power for Praying and Working, part 3
Lesson 62: Power for Praying and Working, part 3To every complaint as to weakness or unfitness, as to difficulties or want of success, Jesus gives this one answer: “He that believes on me shall do greater works, because I go to the Father, and whats…
Lesson 63: The Chief End of Prayer, part 1
Lesson 63: The Chief End of Prayer, part 1John 14:13 - Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.That the Father may be glorified in the Son: it is to this end that Jesus on His throne in glory will do…
Lesson 64: The Chief End of Prayer, part 2
Lesson 64: The Chief End of Prayer, part 2It is not as if the believer does not at times desire to bring glory to God. But he has to mourn that he has so little reached his goal. And he knows the reason of his failure too. It was, because the separa…
Lesson 65: The Chief End of Prayer, part 3
Lesson 65: The Chief End of Prayer, part 3What motive, what power is there that can urge our lazy hearts to yield themselves to our Lord to work His glory in us? Surely nothing more is needed than a sight of how glorious, how the Father is alone wor…
Lesson 66: The Chief End of Prayer, part 4
Lesson 66: The Chief End of Prayer, part 4Let us look to Jesus. In Him we can see by what death we can glorify God. In death, He glorified Him; through death He was glorified with Him. It is by dying, being dead to self and living to God, that we ca…
Lesson 67: The All-Inclusive Condition, part 1
Lesson 67: The All-Inclusive Condition, part 1John 15:7 - If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.In all God’s interaction with us, the promise and its conditions are inseparable. If we fulfi…
Lesson 68: The All-Inclusive Condition, part 2
Lesson 68: The All-Inclusive Condition, part 2In the growing life of abiding in Christ, the first stage is that of faith. As the believer sees that, with all his weakness, the command is really meant for him, his great aim is simply to believe that,…
Lesson 69: The All-Inclusive Condition, part 3
Lesson 69: The All-Inclusive Condition, part 3Truly, faith and obedience are the pathway of blessing. Before giving us the parable of the vine and the branches, Jesus told us very distinctly what the full blessing is to which faith and obedience are…
Lesson 70: The Word and Prayer, part 1
Lesson 70: The Word and Prayer, part 1John 15:7 - If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.The vital connection between the word and prayer is one of the simplest and earliest lessons of the…
Lesson 71: The Word and Prayer, part 2
Lesson 71: The Word and Prayer, part 2When God, the infinite Being, in whom everything is life and power, spirit and truth, in the very deepest meaning of the words—when God speaks forth Himself in His words, He does indeed give HIMSELF, His Love an…
Lesson 72: The Word and Prayer, part 3
Lesson 72: The Word and Prayer, part 3“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever you will, it shall be done unto you.” We see what this means, in the words the Savior Himself gives. We must have the words in us, taken up into our…
Lesson 73: Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer, part 1
Lesson 73: Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer, part 1John 15:16 - You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may…
Lesson 74: Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer, part 2
Lesson 74: Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer, part 2Let us seek to enter into the spirit of what the Savior teaches us. There is a danger in our evangelical religion of looking too much at what it offers from one side, as a certain experience to…
Lesson 75: Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer, part 3
Lesson 75: Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer, part 3The application of obedience in the school of prayer is very simple, but very solemn. “I chose you,” the Master says, “and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit,” much fruit (John 15:…
Lesson 76: The All-effective Plea, part 1
Lesson 76: The All-effective Plea, part 1John 14:13-14 - Whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.John 15:16 - You did not choose Me, but I chose you an…
Lesson 77: The All-effective Plea, part 2
Lesson 77: The All-effective Plea, part 2To use the name of a person may be in virtue of a legal union. A merchant leaving his home and business, gives his chief clerk a general power, by which he can draw thousands of dollars in the merchant’s name…
Lesson 78: The All-effective Plea, part 3
Lesson 78: The All-effective Plea, part 3The illustrations from our last lesson show us how defective the common view is of a messenger sent to ask in the name of another, or a guilty one appealing to the name of a guarantor. No, Jesus Himself is wi…
Lesson 79: The Holy Spirit and Prayer, part 1
Lesson 79: The Holy Spirit and Prayer, part 1John 16:23-26 - In that day you will ask nothing of Me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and…
Lesson 80: The Holy Spirit and Prayer, part 2
Lesson 80: The Holy Spirit and Prayer, part 2Jude 1:20-21 - But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that lead…
Lesson 81: The Holy Spirit and Prayer, part 3
Lesson 81: The Holy Spirit and Prayer, part 3It is now in the intercession of Christ that the continued success and application of His redemption is maintained. And it is through the Holy Spirit descending from Christ to us that we are drawn up into…
Lesson 82: Christ the Intercessor, part 1
Lesson 82: Christ the Intercessor, part 1Luke 22:32 - I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.John 16:26 - In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will…
Lesson 83: Christ the Intercessor, part 2
Lesson 83: Christ the Intercessor, part 2Hebrews 7:25 - …He always lives to make intercession…To understand intercession, think first of His intercession: He ever lives to make intercession. The work of Christ on earth as Priest was but a beginning.…
Lesson 84: Christ the Intercessor, part 3
Lesson 84: Christ the Intercessor, part 3The Only-begotten is the only one who has the right to pray: to Him alone it was said, “Ask, and it shall be given You.” As in all other things the fulness dwells in Him; so the true prayerfulness too; He alo…
Lesson 85: Christ the High Priest, part 1
Lesson 85: Christ the High Priest, part 1John 17:24 - Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory that You have given Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.In His parting…
Lesson 86: Christ the High Priest, part 2
Lesson 86: Christ the High Priest, part 2First, Jesus prays for Himself, for His being glorified, that so He may glorify the Father. “Father, glorify Your Son. And now, Father, glorify Me.” And He brings forward the grounds on which He thus prays. A…
Lesson 87: Christ the High Priest, part 3
Lesson 87: Christ the High Priest, part 3And then follows our Lord’s prayer for a still wider circle. “I pray not only for these, but for them who through their word shall believe.” His priestly heart enlarges itself to embrace all places and all ti…
Lesson 88: Christ the Sacrifice, part 1
Lesson 88: Christ the Sacrifice, part 1Mark 14:36 - And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”What a contrast within the space of a few hours! What a transition from…
Lesson 89: Christ the Sacrifice, part 2
Lesson 89: Christ the Sacrifice, part 2It is in the denial of His will, this complete surrender of His will to the will of the Father, that Christ’s obedience reached its highest perfection. It is from the sacrifice of the will in Gethsemane that th…
Lesson 90: Christ the Sacrifice, part 3
Lesson 90: Christ the Sacrifice, part 3In Him, as He bows there in Gethsemane, I must abide. As my Head, He not only once suffered for me, but ever lives in me, breathing and working His own disposition in me too. The Eternal Spirit, through which…
Lesson 91: Our Boldness in Prayer, part 1
Lesson 91: Our Boldness in Prayer, part 11 John 5:14-15 - And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the req…
Lesson 92: Our Boldness in Prayer, part 2
Lesson 92: Our Boldness in Prayer, part 2Through the word. There is a secret will of God, with which we often fear that our prayers may be at variance. It is not with this will of God, but His will as revealed in His word, that we deal with in praye…
Lesson 93: Our Boldness in Prayer, part 3
Lesson 93: Our Boldness in Prayer, part 3It is the union of the teaching of the Word and Spirit that many do not understand, and so there is a twofold difficulty in knowing what God’s will may be. Some seek the will of God in an inner feeling or con…
Lesson 94: The Ministry of Intercession, part 1
Lesson 94: The Ministry of Intercession, part 11 Peter 2:5 - you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.Isaiah 61:6 - but…
Lesson 95: The Ministry of Intercession, part 2
Lesson 95: The Ministry of Intercession, part 2Priesthood was seen in the clothing: the holy garments, made after God’s own order, marked them as His (Exodus 28). It was seen in the command as to their special purity and freedom from all contact fro…
Lesson 96: The Ministry of Intercession, part 3
Lesson 96: The Ministry of Intercession, part 3We must notice what was new in the application of the blood to the priest. If ever he had as a penitent brought a sacrifice for his sin, seeking forgiveness, the blood was sprinkled on the altar, but no…
Lesson 97: A Life of Prayer, part 1
Lesson 97: A Life of Prayer, part 11 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.Our Lord spoke the parable of the widow and the unjust judge to…
Lesson 98: A Life of Prayer, part 2
Lesson 98: A Life of Prayer, part 2We see that the Lord needs and takes time, because we and all around us are the creatures of time, under the law of growth; but knowing that not one single prayer of faith can possibly be lost, that there is someti…
Lesson 99: A Life of Prayer, part 3
Lesson 99: A Life of Prayer, part 3The chief thing we need for a life of unceasing prayer, is to know that Jesus teaches us to pray. We have begun to understand a little of what His teaching is. Not the communication of new thoughts or views; not th…