Category: prayer

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    J. Oswald Sanders Discovering the Will of God The will of God … good … acceptable … perfect (Rom 12:2). Our seventh lesson centers on John’s confident statement: “And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will. He hears us. And if we know that…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Pleading the Promises His precious and magnificent promises (2 Pet 1:4) The original owners of the fabulous Mt. Morgan gold mine in Queensland, Australia, toiled for many years on its barren slopes, eking out a frugal living, unaware that beneath their feet lay one of the richest mountains of gold the world…

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    J. Oswald Sanders The Matchless Teacher With strong crying and tears (Heb 5:7, KJV). Our most wonderful lesson and our greatest inspiration in the holy art of prayer come from Him who not only spoke as never man spoke, but prayed as never man prayed. It is Luke who especially captures for us the teaching…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Confession I will confess my transgressions to the LORD (Psalm 32:5) In considering our second lesson in the school of prayer, we reviewed thanksgiving and recalled the all too frequent times when we had failed to give God thanks. We have often deserved the rebuke that our Lord directed to the nine…

  • NO FARMS = NO FOOD

    Pray for our Farmers

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    J. Oswald Sanders Thanksgiving Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalm 118:1, KJV). The element in prayer is thanksgiving, which is the glad and appreciative acknowledgment of the benefits and blessings God gives, either to ourselves or to others. It is an integral part of prayer, not an addendum to it. Thanksgiving is to be distinguished…

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    J. Oswald Sanders Preface The supreme importance of prayer is tacitly admitted by most evangelical Christians. It is accepted as an article of faith. And yet there are few areas of the Christian life in which there are more regretful confessions of failure and disappointment. The Author does not pose as an authority on the…

  • PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    E. M. BoundsChapter 14 Prayer and the House of God And dear to me the loud “Amen,”Which echoes through the blest abode –Which swells, and sinks, then swells again,Dies on the walls — but lives with God! Prayer affects places, times, occasions, and circumstances. It has to do with God and with everything that is…

  • PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    E. M. BoundsChapter 13 Prayer and the Word of God Some years ago a man was traveling in the wilds of Kentucky. He had with him a large sum of money and was well armed. He stayed at a log house one night but was much concerned with the rough appearance of the men who…

  • PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    E. M. BoundsChapter 12 Prayer and God’s Promises In the Scriptures, we constantly encounter such words as “field,” “seed,” “sower,” “reaper,” “seedtime,” “harvest.” Employing such metaphors interprets a fact of nature by a parable of grace. The field is the world and the good seed is the Word of God. Whether the Word be spoken…