Teach Us To Pray
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…