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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... servant king instead of David my 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 ...
... servant king instead of David my 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 ...
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... called the twelve ; and he saith unto them , If any man would be first , he shall be last of all , and servant of all . And he took a little child , and set him in the midst of them : and taking him 22 [ II - 3 ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
... called the twelve ; and he saith unto them , If any man would be first , he shall be last of all , and servant of all . And he took a little child , and set him in the midst of them : and taking him 22 [ II - 3 ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
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... servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare , and I perish here with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father , and will say unto him , Father , I have sinned against heaven , and in thy sight : I am no more worthy to be ...
... servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare , and I perish here with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father , and will say unto him , Father , I have sinned against heaven , and in thy sight : I am no more worthy to be ...
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... servant , prepared for all things ; for I desire not to live unto myself , but unto Thee ; and Oh , that I could do it worthily and perfectly ! Amen . -Thomas à Kempis ( 1379-1471 ) . Third Day , Fourth Week Let us this week consider ...
... servant , prepared for all things ; for I desire not to live unto myself , but unto Thee ; and Oh , that I could do it worthily and perfectly ! Amen . -Thomas à Kempis ( 1379-1471 ) . Third Day , Fourth Week Let us this week consider ...
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... servant heareth " ( I Sam . 3 : 10 ) ; " My soul , wait thou in silence for God only ; For my expectation is from ... servants of the world reveals how much of their vision and stimulus came in quiet and receptive hours . Prayer gave God ...
... servant heareth " ( I Sam . 3 : 10 ) ; " My soul , wait thou in silence for God only ; For my expectation is from ... servants of the world reveals how much of their vision and stimulus came in quiet and receptive hours . Prayer gave God ...
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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