Part 11 (1/2)

=”Praying in the Holy Spirit.”=--JUDE 20.

Our Lord gave His disciples on His resurrection day the Holy Spirit to enable them to wait for the full outpouring on the day of Pentecost. It is only in the power of the Spirit already in us, acknowledged and yielded to, that we can pray for His fuller manifestation. Say to the Father, it is the Spirit of His Son in you is urging you to plead His promise.

SPECIAL PEt.i.tIONS

THIRD DAY

WHAT TO PRAY.--For all Saints

=”With all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”=--EPH. vi. 18.

Every member of a body is interested in the welfare of the whole, and exists to help and complete the others. Believers are one body, and ought to pray, not so much for the welfare of their own church or society, but, first of all, for all saints. This large, unselfish love is the proof that Christ's Spirit and Love is teaching them to pray.

Pray first for all and then for the believers around you.

HOW TO PRAY.--In the Love of the Spirit

=”By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.”=--JOHN xiii. 35.

=”I pray that they all may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.”=--JOHN xvii. 21.

=”I beseech you, brethren, by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to G.o.d for me.”=--ROM. xv. 30.

=”Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves.”=--1 PET. iv. 8.