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DELIBERATION NECESSARY TO LARGEST RESULTS FROM PRAYER
Power Through Prayer This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, Scripture-reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better…
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PREACHERS NEED THE PRAYERS OF PEOPLE
Power Through Prayer If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers—had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent and incessant prayers for them—they would have been much…
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PRAYER MARKS SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
Power Through Prayer Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer.…
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MUCH PRAYER THE PRICE OF UNCTION
Power Through Prayer All the minister’s efforts will be vanity or worse than vanity if he have not unction. Unction must come down from heaven and spread a savor and feeling and relish over his ministry; and among the other means of qualifying himself for his office, the Bible must hold the first place, and…
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UNCTION, THE MARK OF TRUE GOSPEL PREACHING
Power Through Prayer Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear and your heart full of God’s Spirit is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin. Remember that God, and not man, must have the glory. If the veil of the…
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UNCTION A NECESSITY
Power Through Prayer One bright benison which private prayer brings down upon the ministry is an indescribable and inimitable something—an unction from the Holy One … If the anointing which we bear come not from the Lord of hosts, we are deceivers, since only in prayer can we obtain it. Let us continue instant constant…
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GRACE FROM THE HEART RATHER THAN T HE HEAD
Power Through Prayer Study not to be a fine preacher. Jerichos are blown down with rams’ horns. Look simply unto Jesus for preaching food; and what is wanted will be given, and what is given will be blessed, whether it be a barley grain or a wheaten loaf, a crust or a crumb. Your mouth…
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HEART PREPARATION NECESSARY
Power Through Prayer For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience. — William Penn In the morning was more engaged in preparing the head than the heart. This has been frequently my error, and I have always felt the evil of…
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AN EXAMPLE OF DEVOTION
Power Through Prayer I urge upon you communion with Christ a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn aside in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in him. I despair that I shall ever win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it. Therefore…