The Meaning of PrayerAssociation Press, 1915 - 196 pages When anyone undertakes to study the meaning and to cultivate the habit of prayer, it is well for the person to understand, from the beginning, that he is dealing with a natural function of his life and not with an artificial addition. For instance, raising palm trees in Greenland would be an unnatural proceeding. They never were intended to grow there and never can grow there save under stress of artificial forcing. The culture of prayer would be just as strained a procedure, were it not true that the tendency to pray is native to us, that prayer is indigenous in us, that we do pray, one way or another, even though fitfully and without effect, and that we humans always have prayed and always will pray. |
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... Father , who makest wars to cease in all the world , restore to us , Thy people , speedily the blessing of peace , and grant that our present troubles may be overruled to Thy glory , in the extension of the Redeemer's Kingdom , and the ...
... Father , who makest wars to cease in all the world , restore to us , Thy people , speedily the blessing of peace , and grant that our present troubles may be overruled to Thy glory , in the extension of the Redeemer's Kingdom , and the ...
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... Father , the Father of all wisdom , understand- ing , and true strength , I beseech Thee , for Thy only Son our Savior Christ's sake , look mercifully upon me , wretched creature , and send Thine Holy Spirit into my breast ; that not ...
... Father , the Father of all wisdom , understand- ing , and true strength , I beseech Thee , for Thy only Son our Savior Christ's sake , look mercifully upon me , wretched creature , and send Thine Holy Spirit into my breast ; that not ...
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... father : and I am but a little child ; I know not how to go out or come in . And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen , a great people , that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude . Give thy servant ...
... father : and I am but a little child ; I know not how to go out or come in . And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen , a great people , that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude . Give thy servant ...
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... Father , to seek Thee daily , and Thou offerest Thyself daily to be found : whensoever I seek , I find Thee , in my house , in the fields , in the temple , and in the highway . Whatsoever I do , Thou art with me ; whether I eat or drink ...
... Father , to seek Thee daily , and Thou offerest Thyself daily to be found : whensoever I seek , I find Thee , in my house , in the fields , in the temple , and in the highway . Whatsoever I do , Thou art with me ; whether I eat or drink ...
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... Father , from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named , that he would grant you , according to the riches of his glory , that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man ; that Christ may dwell in ...
... Father , from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named , that he would grant you , according to the riches of his glory , that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man ; that Christ may dwell in ...
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Ahab answer believe Bible blessing called cause Christian communion Consider DAILY READINGS dominant desire earnest earth Eternal evil experience face faith Father feel fellowship friendship gifts give glory God's grace grant Habakkuk habitual hand hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher Holy Holy Spirit Horace Bushnell human individual intercession Jehovah Jeremy Taylor Kingdom knowledge lives Lord man's Master Matt means mercy mind moods natural natural law never ourselves peace petition practice prayer wheel presence Psalm Psalmist READINGS First Day realm reign of law rejoice religion righteous sake Scripture secret seek servant soul speak spirit SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHT supplication Thine things Thomas à Kempis Thou art Thou hast thou wilt thy name Thyself tion trouble true truth unanswered unanswered prayer unselfish unto thee Walter Rauschenbusch wants Week wisdom wish words