Teach Us To Pray
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…