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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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HE LIFTED ME
Amazing Grace Words and Music by Charles H. Gabriel, 1856–1932 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. (Psalm…
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Morning & Evening
Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? Love is too often like…
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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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JESUS LOVES EVEN ME
Amazing Grace Words and Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1838–1876 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. (John 15:9) The wonder of Jesus’ deep love for each of us has been expressed in this text in beautiful but childlike language by the noted musician of early…
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Morning & Evening
Hagar had once found deliverance there and Ishmael had drank from the water so graciously revealed by the God who liveth and seeth the sons of men; but this was a merely casual visit, such as worldlings pay to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to him in…
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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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MORE LOVE TO THEE
Amazing Grace Elizabeth Prentiss, 1818–1878 And this is my prayer: That your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through…
