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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…
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Morning & Evening
These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not…
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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 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…
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MY JESUS, I LOVE THEE
Amazing Grace William R. Featherston, 1846–1873 We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19) And shall I use these ransomed powers of mineFor things that only minister to me?Lord, take my tongue, my hands, my heart, my all,And let me live and love for Thee!— Unknown The spiritual depth of “My Jesus,…
