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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... sakes . A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father , Father , give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me . And he divided unto them his living . And not many days after , the younger son ...
... sakes . A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father , Father , give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me . And he divided unto them his living . And not many days after , the younger son ...
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... sake . Consider the evil attitudes , cherished sins , bad tempers in your life that make praying in any deep and earnest way a difficult under- taking . O Lord , come quickly and reign on Thy throne , for now oft - times something rises ...
... sake . Consider the evil attitudes , cherished sins , bad tempers in your life that make praying in any deep and earnest way a difficult under- taking . O Lord , come quickly and reign on Thy throne , for now oft - times something rises ...
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... sake . Amen . - Samuel McComb . Third Day , Fifth Week Be not rash with thy mouth , and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God ; for God is in heaven , and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few . -Eccl . 5 ...
... sake . Amen . - Samuel McComb . Third Day , Fifth Week Be not rash with thy mouth , and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God ; for God is in heaven , and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few . -Eccl . 5 ...
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... sake . Amen . -Samuel McComb . Fifth Day , Fifth Week Give ear to my words , O Jehovah , Consider my meditation . Hearken unto the voice of my cry , my King , and my God ; For unto thee do I pray . O Jehovah , in the morning shalt thou ...
... sake . Amen . -Samuel McComb . Fifth Day , Fifth Week Give ear to my words , O Jehovah , Consider my meditation . Hearken unto the voice of my cry , my King , and my God ; For unto thee do I pray . O Jehovah , in the morning shalt thou ...
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... sake . Sometimes we talk with our friends for the sheer joy of talking , but sometimes we talk because we want something . So communion with God is commonly motived by desire ; the element of petition belongs by nature to the tendency ...
... sake . Sometimes we talk with our friends for the sheer joy of talking , but sometimes we talk because we want something . So communion with God is commonly motived by desire ; the element of petition belongs by nature to the tendency ...
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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