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  • PRAYER POWER UNLIMITED

    J. Oswald Sanders World Rulers Need Prayer Prayers … for … all who are in authority (1 Tim 2:1-2) Prayer for world rulers is enjoined on the praying Christian as a primary responsibility: when counseling his young protege Timothy, Paul set before him the priorities he should observe. First of all, then, [and here it…

  • PRAYER POWER UNLIMITED

    J. Oswald Sanders Prayer Takes Time Redeeming the time (Eph 5:16, KJV) We move on to a lesson that is difficult to master, but which greatly influences the potency of our prayers. Alexander Whyte said, I am as certain as I am standing here that the secret of much mischief to our souls, and to…

  • PRAYER POWER UNLIMITED

    J. Oswald Sanders The All-Powerful Name Anything in My name (John 14:14) Is it not significant that in His last discourse with His disciples, our Lord six times in close succession spoke of praying “in My name” (John 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23-27)? He must surely have attached singular importance to this advanced lesson in the school…

  • JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him. (Nahum 1:7) The universal recognition of a personal dependence upon the infinite God has no doubt made this appealing hymn the best loved of the more than 6500 texts of Charles Wesley.…

  • PRAYER POWER UNLIMITED

    J. Oswald Sanders Petition and Intercession Petitions, prayers, intercessions … for all men (1 Tim 2:1, NEB) In our fourth lesson, we turn from the Godward to the manward aspect of prayer — petition, when we are concerned about our own needs; and intercession, when we are concerned with the needs of others. There are…

  • O THE DEEP DEEP LOVE OF JESUS

    Amazing Grace S. Trevor Francis, 1834–1925 I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. (Ephesians 3:17, 18) Who can fully grasp the dimensions of God’s great love for us? Yet the…

  • SO I SEND YOU

    Amazing Grace E. Margaret Clarkson, 1915–2008 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) Isolated from Christian fellowship and feeling very lonely, Margaret Clarkson was a 23-year-old school teacher in a gold-mining camp town…

  • CHRIST FOR THE WORLD WE SING

    Amazing Grace Samuel Wolcott, 1813–1886 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age.…

  • GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by James McGranahan, 1840–1907 Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. (Mark 16:15) Give us a watchword for the hour, a thrilling word, a word of power;A battlecry, a flaming breath that calls to conquer even death.A word to rouse the Church from rest,…

  • THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 8

    2 Maccabees 8 1 Judas gathers together his host. 9 Nicanor is sent against Judas. 16 Judas exhorts his soldiers to constancy. 20 Nicanor is overcome. 27 The Jews gave thanks, after they have put their enemies to flight, dividing part of the spoils unto the fatherless and unto the widows. 30 Timotheus and Bacchides…