Category: prayer

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    J. Oswald Sanders Should Christians Fast? When you fast (Matt 6:17) Prayer and fasting are linked together both in the Scriptures and in the life-patterns of many saints of God. But fasting, in the sense in which the New Testament uses the word, has gone out of fashion. “Fasting of the mind,” or “fasting of…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Power in United Prayer With one accord (Acts 4:24) “No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer — Christians persistently praying for revival.”1 Such is the dictum of J. Edwin Orr, one of the world’s authorities on the subject of revival, and it is a lesson…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Exercising Spiritual Authority I have given you authority (Luke 10:18) At a conference of missionaries and Chinese pastors held shortly before the Communists gained control of China, one pastor gave a striking address. He said he and his colleagues were more than grateful to those who had brought them the Word of…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Paul, Man of Prayer Praying always (Eph 6:18, KJV) We learn truth best when we see it expressed in a human personality, and this is true of prayer. Of all men of all ages, few, if any, have excelled the apostle Paul in the depth and the effectiveness of their prayer lives.…

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    J. Oswald Sanders The Pattern Prayer Pray, then, in this way (Matt 6:8) The Lord’s Prayer was the first specific lesson on prayer that Jesus taught His disciples. They had been listening in to their Master while He was praying, and the experience had kindled in their hearts a yearning to know the same intimacy…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Moving Men Through God Why could not we? (Matt 17:19, KJV) In an earlier lessons intercession was defined, and now we shall consider the subject in greater detail. It is not irreverent to recognize as a fact that there are perplexing problems involved in the ministry of intercession. All Christian workers, and…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Post-Mortem on Unanswered Prayer Because you ask with wrong motives (James 4:3) Having considered some of the most important conditions of answered prayer, we come face to face, with the fact that too many of our prayers go unanswered. This is a melancholy admission in view of the multiplicity of the promises…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Shameless Persistence Because of his importunity. (Luke 11:8, KJV) We come now to a requirement in prayer that is rather surprising, and to some, not a little puzzling. It seems that God is moved to answer our prayers in response to a persistence that will not take no for an answer —…

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    J. Oswald Sanders The Prayer of Faith Have faith in God (Mark 11:22) We come now to a spiritual principle of overriding importance in relation to answered prayer. It is enunciated in Hebrews 11:6: “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Praying in the Spirit The Spirit Himself intercedes for us (Rom 8:26). In the previous lessons in the school of prayer we analyzed the various elements in prayer, reviewed the prayer life of the Master Teacher, showed the place the promises of God play in prayer, and considered two of the conditions…