Part 18 (2/2)

What a world of suffering we live in! How Jesus sacrificed all and identified Himself with it! Let us in our measure do so too. The persecuted Stundists and Armenians and Jews, the famine-stricken millions of India, the hidden slavery of Africa, the poverty and wretchedness of our great cities--and so much more: what suffering among those who know G.o.d and who know Him not. And then in smaller circles, in ten thousand homes and hearts, what sorrow. In our own neighbourhood, how many needing help or comfort. Let us have a heart for, let us think of the suffering. It will stir us to pray, to work, to hope, to love more. And in a way and time we know not G.o.d will hear our prayer.

HOW TO PRAY.--Praying always, and not fainting

=”He spake unto them a parable to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint.”=--LUKE xviii. 1.

Do you not begin to feel prayer is really the help for this sinful world? What a need there is of unceasing prayer? The very greatness of the task makes us despair! What can our ten minutes of intercession avail? It is right we feel this: this is the way in which G.o.d is calling and preparing us to give our life to prayer. Give yourself wholly to G.o.d for men, and amid all your work, your heart will be drawn out to men in love, and drawn up to G.o.d in dependence and expectation. To a heart thus led by the Holy Spirit, it is possible to pray always and not to faint.

SPECIAL PEt.i.tIONS

TWENTY-THIRD DAY

WHAT TO PRAY.--For the Holy Spirit in your own Work

=”I labour, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.”=--COL. i. 29.

You have your own special work; make it a work of intercession. Paul laboured, striving according to the working of G.o.d in him. Remember, G.o.d is not only the Creator, but the Great Workman, who worketh all in all.

You can only do your work in His strength, by Him working in you through the Spirit. Intercede much for those among whom you work, till G.o.d gives you life for them.

Let us all intercede too for each other, for every worker throughout G.o.d's Church, however solitary or unknown.

HOW TO PRAY.--In G.o.d's very Presence

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