Part 21 (2/2)

=”Those who preached unto you the gospel with the Holy Ghost sent forth from heaven.”=--1 PET. i. 12.

What numbers of Bibles are being circulated. What numbers of sermons on the Bible are being preached. What numbers of Bibles are being read in home and school. How little blessing when it comes ”in word” only; what Divine blessing and power when it comes ”in the Holy Ghost,” when it is preached ”with the Holy Ghost sent forth from heaven.” Pray for Bible circulation, and preaching and teaching and reading, that it may all be in the Holy Ghost, with much prayer. Pray for the power of the Spirit with the word in your own neighbourhood, wherever it is being read or heard. Let every mention of ”The Word of G.o.d” waken intercession.

HOW TO PRAY.--Watching and Praying

=”Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; withal praying for us also, that G.o.d may open for us a door for the word.”=--COL. iv. 2, 3.

Do you not see how all depends upon G.o.d and prayer? As long as He lives and loves, and hears and works, as long as there are souls with hearts closed to the word, as long as there is work to be done in carrying the word--=Pray without ceasing. Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving. These words are for every Christian.=

SPECIAL PEt.i.tIONS

THIRTY-FIRST DAY

WHAT TO PRAY.--For the Spirit of Christ in His People

=”I am the Vine, ye are the branches.”=--JOHN xv. 5.

=”That ye should do as I have done to you.”=--JOHN xiii. 15.

As branches we are to be so like the Vine, so entirely identified with it, that all may see that we have the same nature, and life, and spirit.

When we pray for the Spirit, let us not only think of a Spirit of power, but the very disposition and temper of Christ Jesus. Ask and expect nothing less: for yourself, and all G.o.d's children, cry for it.

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