Teach Us To Pray
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…