Category: Religion/Spirituality
_The Holy Spirit will give to the praying saint the brightness of an immortal hope, the music of a deathless song, in His baptism and communion with the heart. He will give sweeter and more enlarged visions of heaven until the taste for other things will pall, and other vision...
_The Holy Spirit will give to the praying saint the brightness of an immortal hope, the music of a deathless song, in His baptism and communion with the heart. He will give swee...
2. CHAPTER II_Bishop Lambeth and Wainwright had a great M. E. Mission in Osaka, Japan. One day the order came from high up that no more meetings would be allowed in the city by Protestants....
3. CHAPTER III_Oh for determined men and women, who will rise early and really burn out for God. Oh for a faith that will sweep into heaven with the early dawning of the morning and have ship...
4. CHAPTER IV_Intercessory Prayer is a powerful means of grace to the praying man. Martyn observes that at times of inward dryness and depression, he had often found a delightful revival in...
5. CHAPTER V_“I have known men,” says Goodwin--it must have been himself--“who came to God for nothing else but just to come to Him, they so loved Him. They scorned to soil Him and themselv...
6. CHAPTER VI_One can form a habit of study until the will seems to be at rest and only the intellect is engaged, the will having retired altogether from exercise. This is not true of real p...
7. CHAPTER VII_Before the Great War there were many signs of a new interest in_ PRAYER _and new hope from its exercise. How these signs have multiplied is known to every one. This one thing a...
8. CHAPTER VIII_We care not for your splendid abilities as a minister, or your natural endowment as an orator before men. We are sure that the truth of the matter is this: No one will or can c...
9. CHAPTER IX_That was a grand action by Jerome, one of the Roman fathers. He laid aside all pressing engagements and went to fulfill the call God gave him, viz., to translate the Holy Scrip...
10. CHAPTER X_It is a wonderful historical fact that the men of prayer have always been the men of power in the world. I want to convince you about this. Some of you men--and I am glad to se...
11. CHAPTER XI_A certain preacher whose sermons converted many souls received a revelation from God that it was not his sermons or works by all means but the prayers of an illiterate lay brot...
12. CHAPTER XII_Fletcher of Madeley, a great teacher of a century and a half ago, used to lecture to the young theological students. He was one of the fellow-workers with Wesley and a man of m...
13. CHAPTER XIII_In the life of Frank Crossley it is told how one day in 1888 he had said good-bye at the station to his friends, General and Mrs. Booth; but before they steamed out he handed a...
14. CHAPTER XIV_William Law has this very pertinent word in his “Devout Life”: “When you begin your petitions use such various expressions of the attributes of God as may make you most sensibl...
15. CHAPTER XV_I desire above all things to learn to pray. We want to sound the reveille for the Christian warriors. We desire to find truth of the lack of real praying. What is it? Why is it...
16. CHAPTER XVI_We announce the law of prayer as follows: A Christian’s prayer is a joint agreement of the will and his cabinet, the emotions, the conscience, the intellect, working in harmony...