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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Page ix
... DIFFICULTIES . V. VI . VII . PRAYER AND THE REIGN OF LAW .. UNANSWERED PRAYER VIII . PRAYER AS DOMINANT DESIRE IX . PRAYER AS A BATTLEFIELD . X. UNSELFISHNESS IN PRAYER .. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY xi I 20 39 55 71 92 113 133 152 172 195 ...
... DIFFICULTIES . V. VI . VII . PRAYER AND THE REIGN OF LAW .. UNANSWERED PRAYER VIII . PRAYER AS DOMINANT DESIRE IX . PRAYER AS A BATTLEFIELD . X. UNSELFISHNESS IN PRAYER .. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY xi I 20 39 55 71 92 113 133 152 172 195 ...
Page xi
... difficulties that hamper fellowship with this living God , the book has used the Scrip- ture as the basis of its thought . But the passages of Scrip- ture quoted are not employed as proof texts to establish an opinion ; they are ...
... difficulties that hamper fellowship with this living God , the book has used the Scrip- ture as the basis of its thought . But the passages of Scrip- ture quoted are not employed as proof texts to establish an opinion ; they are ...
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... difficulty , by a resolute effort , the soul succeeds in fixing its thought on divine things . The third is when the soul finds it hard to turn away from God . " And if from all others , one looks to the Hebrew people , with what ...
... difficulty , by a resolute effort , the soul succeeds in fixing its thought on divine things . The third is when the soul finds it hard to turn away from God . " And if from all others , one looks to the Hebrew people , with what ...
Page 15
... in critical need . He never came to him for friendly conference , never sought his advice , in little difficulties never was comforted by his help . He did not make his father his confidant 15 THE NATURALNESS OF PRAYER [ I - c ]
... in critical need . He never came to him for friendly conference , never sought his advice , in little difficulties never was comforted by his help . He did not make his father his confidant 15 THE NATURALNESS OF PRAYER [ I - c ]
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... difficulty with prayer in our individual experience . At least , so one of the psalmists felt . My God , my God , why hast ... difficulties ; and even persistency in prayer accomplishes nothing . Then he remem- bers that prayer is not ...
... difficulty with prayer in our individual experience . At least , so one of the psalmists felt . My God , my God , why hast ... difficulties ; and even persistency in prayer accomplishes nothing . Then he remem- bers that prayer is not ...
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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