Part 17 (2/2)

As your month of intercession pa.s.ses on, and you feel the greatness of your work, be still before G.o.d. Thus you will get power to pray.

SPECIAL PEt.i.tIONS

TWENTIETH DAY

WHAT TO PRAY.--For G.o.d's Spirit on the Heathen

=”Behold, these shall come from far; and these from the land of Sinim.”=--ISA. xlix. 12.

=”Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands to G.o.d.”=--PS. lxviii. 31.

=”I the Lord will hasten it in His time.”=--ISA. lx. 22.

Pray for the heathen, who are yet without the word. Think of China, with her three hundred millions--a million a month dying without Christ.

Think of Dark Africa, with its two hundred millions. Think of thirty millions a year going down into the thick darkness. If Christ gave His life for them, will you not do so? You can give yourself up to intercede for them. Just begin, if you have never yet begun, with this simple monthly school of intercession. The ten minutes you give will make you feel this is not enough. G.o.d's Spirit will draw you on. Persevere, however feeble you are. Ask G.o.d to give you some country or tribe to pray for. Can anything be n.o.bler than to do as Christ did? Give your life for the heathen.

HOW TO PRAY.--With Confident Expectation of an Answer

=”Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things and difficult, which thou knowest not.”=--JER. x.x.xiii. 3.

=”Thus saith the Lord G.o.d: I will yet be inquired of, that I do it.”=--EZEK. x.x.xvi. 37.

Both texts refer to promises definitely made, but their fulfilment would depend upon prayer: G.o.d would be inquired of to do it.

Pray for G.o.d's fulfilment of His promises to His Son and His Church, and expect the answer. Plead for the heathen: plead G.o.d's Promises.

SPECIAL PEt.i.tIONS

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