Teach Us To Pray
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…