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2013 by Te Navigators
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Excerpts from Dietrich Bonhoeer, Te Cost o Discipleship,1963, Collier Books, used by permission.Excerpts from E. M. Bounds, Te Essentials o Prayer, Te Necessity o Prayer, Te Possibilities o Prayer, Prayer and
Praying Men, Purpose in Prayer, Te Reality o Prayer, and Te Weapon o Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from Lee Brase with Henry Helsabek, Praying rom Gods Heart, 1993, NavPress, used by permission.Excerpts from John Bunyan, Pilgrims Prayer Book, 1986, yndale, used by permission.Excerpts from Captain E. G. Carr,A Present-Day Challenge to Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from D. A. Carson,A Call to Spiritual Reormation, 1992, Baker Academic, used by permission.Excerpts from Samuel Chadwick, Te Path o Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from Oswald Chambers, I You Will Ask, public domain.Excerpts from Wesley L. Duewel, ouch the World Trough Prayer, 1986, Zondervan, used by permission.Excerpts from Jonathan Edwards, Te Lie and Diary o David Brainerd, public domain.Excerpts from Elisabeth Elliot, Gods Guidance, 1992, Revell, used by permission.Excerpts from Charles Finney, Power rom on High, public domain.Excerpts from P. . Forsyth, Te Soul o Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from Jeanne Guyon,A Short and Easy Method o Prayer, public domain.
Excerpts from Ole Hallesby, Prayer, 1959, Augsburg, used by permission.Excerpts from Brother Lawrence, Te Practice o the Presence o God, public domain.Excerpts from C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiey on Prayer, 1964, Harcourt Brace & Company, used by permission.Excerpts from David McIntyre, Te Hidden Lie o Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from D. L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from George Mller,Answers to Prayerand Te Autobiography o George Mller,public domain.Excerpts from Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School o Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from John Owen, O Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, public domain.Excerpts from Marcus Rainsford, Our Lord Prays or His Own, public domain.Excerpts from Rosalind Rinker, Prayer: Conversing with God, public domain.Excerpts from R. C. Sproul, Te Prayer o the Lord, 2009, Reformation rust Publishing, a division of Ligonier
Ministries, used by permission.Excerpts from Charles Spurgeon,Morning by Morning, public domain.Excerpts from Dr. and Mrs. Howard aylor, Hudson aylors Spiritual Secret, public domain.Excerpts from R. A. orrey, How to Prayand Te Power o Prayer, public domain.Excerpts from A. W. ozer, Te Pursuit o God, public domain.Excerpts from An Unknown Christian, Te Kneeling Christian, public domain.Excerpts from Tomas R. Yeakley, Praying Over Gods Promises, 2007, NavPress, used by permission.
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Foreword by Dr. Michael D. Miller 13
Week 1 / Monday / Infinite Fullness 15
Week 1 / Tuesday / Resolved to Do His Will 16
Week 1 / Wednesday / Self-Examination and the Love of God 17
Week 1 / Thursday / Hoping in God Alone 18
Week 1 / Friday / The Mountain Is Still Open 19
Week 1 / Weekend / Faith to Grasp His Faithfulness 20
Week 2 / Monday / Come Helpless 21
Week 2 / Tuesday /Acknowledging Sin 22Week 2 / Wednesday /Always in the Presence 23
Week 2 / Thursday /Above the Storms and Clouds 24
Week 2 / Friday / Definite Prayers, Definite Answers 25
Week 2 / Weekend / Wrapped Up in Divine Love 26
Week 3 / Monday / Spirit and Truth 27
Week 3 / Tuesday / On Praying Ground 28
Week 3 / Wednesday / Responding to the Shepherd 29
Week 3 / Thursday / He Prays for Us 30
Week 3 / Friday /An Encounter of Wills 31
Week 3 / Weekend / Proofs of His Love 32
Week 4 / Monday / Begin with God 33
Week 4 / Tuesday / Joining with the Brokenhearted Father 34
Week 4 / Wednesday / Quiet Confidence 35
Week 4 / Thursday / Before the Throne 36
Week 4 / Friday /Asking Is Easy 37
Week 4 / Weekend / First, Forgive 38
Week 5 / Monday / When We Pray 39
Week 5 / Tuesday / Search Me, O God 40
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5 / Wednesday
/A Childs Right 41Week 5 / Thursday / The Work of the Spirit 42
Week 5 / Friday / Be Real with God 43
Week 5 / Weekend /Audience with God 44
Week 6 / Monday / Feeding on His Presence 45
Week 6 / Tuesday / Prayers Rising from Grief 46
Week 6 / Wednesday / His Holiness 47
Week 6 / Thursday /A Heart Reaching Out to God 48
Week 6 / Friday / Constant Supplication 49
Week 6 / Weekend /A Prayer Warrior at Work 50
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Week 7 / Monday / The Stages of Prayer 51
Week 7 / Tuesday / Praying in Perfect Confidence 52
Week 7 / Wednesday / Blessed Be His Name at All Times 53
Week 7 / Thursday / In His Name 54Week 7 / Friday / The Possibilities of Prayer 55
Week 7 / Weekend / Pray, Then Do 56
Week 8 / Monday / Truly Knowing God 57
Week 8 / Tuesday / The Work of Prayer 58
Week 8 / Wednesday / Praise with Prayer 59
Week 8 / Thursday /All the Heaven I Want 60
Week 8 / Friday /Abandoned to God 61
Week 8 / Weekend / The Father of Faith 62
Week 9 / Monday / The Life of Prayer 63
Week 9 / Tuesday / The Need for Sincerity 64
Week 9 / Wednesday / Finding the Heart of God in Prayer 65
Week 9 / Thursday / The Height of Prayer 66
Week 9 / Friday / Faiths Answers 67
Week 9 / Weekend / Prayer and Gods Mercy 68
Week 10 / Monday / Standing Firm by Prayer 69
Week 10 / Tuesday / Save Us from Self 70
Week 10 / Wednesday / The True Life of Faith 71
Week 10 / Thursday / Drawing Near 72
Week 10 / Friday /Prayer Is Not Easy 73
Week 10 / Weekend / Worship the Living God 74
Week 11 / Monday / That His Name May Be Glorified 75
Week 11 / Tuesday / Prayer Is Obedience 76
Week 11 / Wednesday / Pray with the Heart 77
Week 11 / Thursday / Eternal Prayers 78
Week 11 / Friday / Beholding Jesus 79
Week 11 / Weekend / The Finished Work 80
Week 12 / Monday / Gods Presence 81
Week 12 / Tuesday / Growing Your Faith 82
Week 12 / Wednesday / Something Else in Store 83
Week 12 / Thursday / God Our Guide 84
Week 12 / Friday / Gods Power at Work 85
Week 12 / Weekend / Bread from Heaven 86
Week 13 / Monday / May His Name Be Holy 87
Week 13 / Tuesday / Prayers Shaping Power 88
Week 13 / Wednesday / The Discipline and Power of Prayer 89
Week 13 / Thursday / Safe and Secure in Christ 90
Week 13 / Friday / Effective Prayer 91
Week 13 / Weekend / Lifted Above the World 92
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Week 14 / Monday / Persevering in Prayer 93
Week 14 / Tuesday / Following One Master 94
Week 14 / Wednesday / Rest in His Presence 95
Week 14 / Thursday / Lifting Up Your Soul 96Week 14 / Friday / Gods Providence 97
Week 14 / Weekend / Speaking to Him 98
Week 15 / Monday / Glory to God 99
Week 15 / Tuesday / The Torrent of His Graces 100
Week 15 / Wednesday / Thanking God for His Work Among Christians 101
Week 15 / Thursday / The Compassion of Christ 102
Week 15 / Friday / Laboring in Prayer 103
Week 15 / Weekend / Casting Burdens on Him 104
Week 16 / Monday / Let Christ Reign in Prayer 105
Week 16 / Tuesday / Humility in Prayer 106
Week 16 / Wednesday / Tried by God 107
Week 16 / Thursday / Right Prayer 108
Week 16 / Friday / The Essential Work 109
Week 16 / Weekend / Work Less, Pray More 110
Week 17 / Monday / Lingering in Prayer 111
Week 17 / Tuesday / Prayer Changes Us 112
Week 17 / Wednesday / When You Yourself Are a Prayer 113
Week 17 / Thursday / Passing Strangers 114
Week 17 / Friday /The Creative Power of Prayer 115
Week 17 / Weekend / The Lord Has Heard Me 116
Week 18 / Monday / Personal Prayer 117
Week 18 / Tuesday / Prayer and Forgiveness 118
Week 18 / Wednesday / The Speaking Book 119
Week 18 / Thursday /A Twofold Intercession 120
Week 18 / Friday / Greater Works Through Prayer 121
Week 18 / Weekend / Take His Hand 122
Week 19 / Monday / Giving Yourself to Jesus 123
Week 19 / Tuesday / True Joy 124
Week 19 / Wednesday / Listening in Silence 125
Week 19 / Thursday / Prayer and Gods Purposes 126
Week 19 / Friday / The Sure Promises 127
Week 19 / Weekend / Heaven on Earth 128
Week 20 / Monday / Walking in the Vision 129
Week 20 / Tuesday / His Glory, Not Our Perfectionism 130
Week 20 / Wednesday / Christs Glory 131
Week 20 / Thursday /Attuned to God 132
Week 20 / Friday / He Is Sufficient 133
Week 20 / Weekend / The Reward of Patient Prayer 134
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Week 21 / Monday / Being a Blessing 135
Week 21 / Tuesday / Vertical and Horizontal 136
Week 21 / Wednesday / The Royal Power of the Child of God 137
Week 21 / Thursday / Prayer and Healing 138Week 21 / Friday / He Is the One 139
Week 21 / Weekend / No Good Thing Withheld 140
Week 22 / Monday / Faith to Pray 141
Week 22 / Tuesday / Mastery by Prayer 142
Week 22 / Wednesday / Our Great God 143
Week 22 / Thursday / The Lord Our Shepherd 144
Week 22 / Friday / Gods Cause in Prayer 145
Week 22 / Weekend / Learning to Know Him 146
Week 23 / Monday / In the Grip of the Peace of God 147
Week 23 / Tuesday / Pray with Understanding 148
Week 23 / Wednesday / Give Him Praise 149
Week 23 / Thursday / Learning to Pray 150
Week 23 / Friday / Praying Again 151
Week 23 / Weekend / Reconcile First 152
Week 24 / Monday / United with Christ 153
Week 24 / Tuesday / Christlike Prayer 154
Week 24 / Wednesday / Put Sin Away 155
Week 24 / Thursday / Think and Pray According to the Word 156
Week 24 / Friday /Overcoming by Faith 157
Week 24 / Weekend / One Step at a Time 158
Week 25 / Monday / Hungering for God 159
Week 25 / Tuesday / The Cost of Prayer 160
Week 25 / Wednesday / Gods Encore 161
Week 25 / Thursday / How Long? 162
Week 25 / Friday /All Through the Spirit 163
Week 25 / Weekend / Wrestling in Prayer 164
Week 26 / Monday / The Love of Christ 165
Week 26 / Tuesday / Difficulties of Prayer 166
Week 26 / Wednesday /Ask in His Name 167
Week 26 / Thursday / Revel in the Love of God 168
Week 26 / Friday / Following Christ Daily 169
Week 26 / Weekend /Alphabet Prayer 170
Week 27 / Monday / Our Life Trade 171
Week 27 / Tuesday / Praise Opens the Door 172
Week 27 / Wednesday / God Above All 173
Week 27 / Thursday / Love and Virtue 174
Week 27 / Friday / How God Interprets Prayers 175
Week 27 / Weekend / How to Ascertain the Will of God 176
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Week 28 / Monday / Make Requests of God 177
Week 28 / Tuesday / Living as His Child 178
Week 28 / Wednesday / Inexpressible Cries to God 179
Week 28 / Thursday / Willing His Will 180Week 28 / Friday / Turning On the Current 181
Week 28 / Weekend / Dissolved into Christ 182
Week 29 / Monday / Doubt Not 183
Week 29 / Tuesday / The Secret of Life 184
Week 29 / Wednesday / Persevering in Prayer 185
Week 29 / Thursday / Is Not This the Blood? 186
Week 29 / Friday / The Power of Gods Love 187
Week 29 / Weekend / Gods Time Will Come 188
Week 30 / Monday / Prayer Is the Key 189
Week 30 / Tuesday / What Prayer Is 190
Week 30 / Wednesday / He Is Worthy of All 191
Week 30 / Thursday / The Gauge of Grace 192
Week 30 / Friday / Holy Boldness 193
Week 30 / Weekend / Help Must Be at Hand 194
Week 31 / Monday / TheName Above All 195
Week 31 / Tuesday / Cast Yourself on His Mercy 196
Week 31 / Wednesday / Dont Be Ashamed 197
Week 31 / Thursday / Seek Jesus First 198
Week 31 / Friday /Too Hard for God? 199
Week 31 / Weekend /A Soul Stayed upon God 200
Week 32 / Monday / The Secret of Christian Quietness 201
Week 32 / Tuesday / Coming Before the Good King 202
Week 32 / Wednesday / Gods Loan to Us 203
Week 32 / Thursday / Cooperation with God 204
Week 32 / Friday / The Great Need to Make Disciples 205
Week 32 / Weekend / Jorns Lot 206
Week 33 / Monday / The Power of Private Prayer 207
Week 33 / Tuesday / Press On to Know God 208
Week 33 / Wednesday / Genuine Prayer in the Spirit 209
Week 33 / Thursday / Hearing the Voice 210
Week 33 / Friday / You Are Not Condemned 211
Week 33 / Weekend / Give Your Life 212
Week 34 / Monday / They Have Been with Jesus 213
Week 34 / Tuesday / Speaking to Christ Through the Spirit 214
Week 34 / Wednesday / Dont Be Content with Mediocrity 215
Week 34 / Thursday / The Faith to Ask Gods Will 216
Week 34 / Friday / Total Honesty 217
Week 34 / Weekend / Gods Presence on the Wearisome Journey 218
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Week 35 / Monday / The Glory of Redemption 219
Week 35 / Tuesday / Entering the Presence 220
Week 35 / Wednesday / Invest Time in Prayer 221
Week 35 / Thursday / Where Are the Nine? 222Week 35 / Friday / The Debt You Cannot Pay 223
Week 35 / Weekend / On His Knees at Last 224
Week 36 / Monday / Take Your Troubles to God 225
Week 36 / Tuesday / Unforgiveness Leads to Prayerlessness 226
Week 36 / Wednesday / Pray Stretched-out-ed-ly 227
Week 36 / Thursday / Cleansed and Transformed Completely 228
Week 36 / Friday / Prayer at Work in Others 229
Week 36 / Weekend / Faith Must Be Tried 230
Week 37 / Monday / Pray According to Scripture 231
Week 37 / Tuesday / True Fellowship Through Prayer 232
Week 37 / Wednesday / Looking to God in Faith 233
Week 37 / Thursday / Pure Gold 234
Week 37 / Friday / Keep Asking 235
Week 37 / Weekend / Coming to the Cure 236
Week 38 / Monday / Intercession with God 237
Week 38 / Tuesday / Be Thou My Vision 238
Week 38 / Wednesday / Pray Undistractedly 239
Week 38 / Thursday / Prayer and Holiness 240
Week 38 / Friday /Encouragement from the Word 241
Week 38 / Weekend / God in All the Business of Life 242
Week 39 / Monday / Striving in Prayer 243
Week 39 / Tuesday / His Unchanging Love 244
Week 39 / Wednesday / Study to Pray 245
Week 39 / Thursday / Citizens of the Kingdom 246
Week 39 / Friday / Just Ask! 247
Week 39 / Weekend /A Test for Faith 248
Week 40 / Monday / Praying Is Service 249
Week 40 / Tuesday / Beware of Faintness 250
Week 40 / Wednesday / Time to Pray 251
Week 40 / Thursday / Your Circumstances in the Hand of God 252
Week 40 / Friday / God Loves a Man Aflame 253
Week 40 / Weekend / Surrendered to God at the Sea 254
Week 41 / Monday / Teach Me to Pray 255
Week 41 / Tuesday / The Joint Work 256
Week 41 / Wednesday / With Christ 257
Week 41 / Thursday / What We Really Need 258
Week 41 / Friday / Gods Great Desire 259
Week 41 / Weekend / For Christs Sake 260
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Week 42 / Monday / The Age of Complexity 261
Week 42 / Tuesday / Deliver Us from Idols 262
Week 42 / Wednesday /A Holy Watchfulness 263
Week 42 / Thursday / Praying Scripture 264Week 42 / Friday / Pray with Emotion 265
Week 42 / Weekend / Talking with God Too 266
Week 43 / Monday / Promises, Faith, Patience 267
Week 43 / Tuesday /Accepting His Perfect Will 268
Week 43 / Wednesday / Too Dry to Pray 269
Week 43 / Thursday / What God Expects 270
Week 43 / Friday / Faith, Grace, and Prayer 271
Week 43 / Weekend / Pray for Me 272
Week 44 / Monday / Gods Working Through Prayer 273
Week 44 / Tuesday / Samuel Rutherfords Trials 274
Week 44 / Wednesday / Prayer for Humility 275
Week 44 / Thursday / To Value Christ 276
Week 44 / Friday / Priests in His Presence 277
Week 44 / Weekend / Resolved to Pray 278
Week 45 / Monday / The Act of Faith 279
Week 45 / Tuesday / Cooperate with God 280
Week 45 / Wednesday / Drawing Strength from the Scriptures 281
Week 45 / Thursday /At Peace Before Him 282
Week 45 / Friday /Drawn Deep into Prayer 283
Week 45 / Weekend / Weeping for the People 284
Week 46 / Monday / The Law of Prayer 285
Week 46 / Tuesday / Gods Point of View 286
Week 46 / Wednesday / Prayer, Not Independence 287
Week 46 / Thursday /An Opportunity to Trust 288
Week 46 / Friday / No Accusation Can Stand 289
Week 46 / Weekend / Revival in the Home 290
Week 47 / Monday / One with Christ! 291
Week 47 / Tuesday / Into the Presence of God 292
Week 47 / Wednesday / Living Above the World 293
Week 47 / Thursday / Quit Pretending 294
Week 47 / Friday /All My Desire 295
Week 47 / Weekend /Assisted in Prayer 296
Week 48 / Monday /A Sacred Partnership 297
Week 48 / Tuesday / The Hard, Easy Commands 298
Week 48 / Wednesday / Thoughts of Sin and Grace 299
Week 48 / Thursday / Giving Thanks to God 300
Week 48 / Friday / Using Gods Promises 301
Week 48 / Weekend /Alone with Him 302
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Week 49 / Monday / His Infinite Fatherliness 303
Week 49 / Tuesday / Keep Your Mind in His Presence 304
Week 49 / Wednesday / Passion for God 305
Week 49 / Thursday / Want of the Spirit 306Week 49 / Friday / Gods Gifts of Love 307
Week 49 / Weekend / Our Sufficient God 308
Week 50 / Monday / Prayers Place 309
Week 50 / Tuesday / Pray with Earnestness 310
Week 50 / Wednesday / Closer Than a Brother 311
Week 50 / Thursday / Selling Out to God 312
Week 50 / Friday / Bunyans Dying Words on Prayer 313
Week 50 / Weekend / Prayer and Power 314
Week 51 / Monday / The World Was Made for Prayer 315
Week 51 / Tuesday / The Living Lord 316
Week 51 / Wednesday / The Great Physician 317
Week 51 / Thursday / For the Glory of God 318
Week 51 / Friday / Praise First 319
Week 51 / Weekend / Prayer for Every Minute Detail 320
Week 52 / Monday / Led by the Spirit 321
Week 52 / Tuesday / When Jesus Enters 322
Week 52 / Wednesday / I Have Sinned 323
Week 52 / Thursday / Pray in Him, Like Him 324
Week 52 / Friday /Compassion and Prayer 325
Week 52 / Weekend / Present Through Prayer 326
Sources 327
About the Authors 329
Scripture Index 335
Topical Index 343
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Foreword
The collection you hold in your hands is a gathering in one place of some of
the best writing of our time as well as of earlier days on prayer. The
entries have been carefully arranged to address the essential biblical ele-
ments of prayer each week: preparation, confession, examination, worship,
and request. In addition, every weekend entry relates a true story of prayer
in action to inspire your faith. These are stunning and memorable words
that have deeply influenced generations in the movement of discipleship toJesus. The best books are timeless, and most often they cross cultural bar-
riers. Created by dozens of outstanding authors, the selections in this book
have stood the test of time and shown the power to touch a new generation
of disciples in many settings around the world.
Jesus said, Every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the
kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his store-
room new treasures as well as old (Matthew 13:52, ). At NavPress, we
are conscious of both the old and the new, and we treasure both. We live in
a world of profound change in publishing, and NavPress is at the forefront
of keeping up with the new media. But we are also looking to our faiths
heritage for classic writing that never lets us forget where we have come
from and to pass along those timeless messages that have proven to change
lives. Thats the kind of writing you hold in your hands: some of the great-
est selections on the nature of our God.
The ministry of The Navigators began in the 1930s through the call of
God to Dawson Trotman. Trotmans vision was to teach others, one to one,
the biblical principles of discipleship he found beneficial in his own life. He
began to teach high school students and local Sunday school classes. In
1933, he and his friends extended their work to reach out to sailors in the
U.S. Navy. From there, Trotman met and established a partnership with
the then up-and-coming evangelist Billy Graham.
One of the men Trotman chose to lead the work with Billy Graham
was Lorne Sanny. Sanny went on to become Trotmans successor and
served The Navigators for thirty years as its president. This book contains
writing that is what Lorne Sanny used to call life-borne messages. These
are messages that grow out of a life steeped in the Scriptures and lived out
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in passionate love and obedience to God. They are tested in real life, and
they have a practical authenticity that prompts genuine transformation.
Over the years, I personally have been touched by all the messages in
this collection. These books on prayer reflect the incredibly vast thinkingand counsel on prayer. Their counsel guides, models, and encourages us in
our experiencing of prayer. Each one is part of the fabric of my own disciple-
ship. Now Im convinced that you, too, will find in them an abundance of
godly stimulation and transformative guidance for your own walk with God.
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president, NavPress
chief business officer, The Navigators
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M R, O L P H O
Week 1 / Monday
Infinite Fullness
He is also able to save to the uttermost
those who come to God through Him.
(Hebrews 7:25, nkjv)
We are not of this world, though we are in it. We have been translated out
of the kingdom of darkness, we have been introduced into the kingdom of
Gods dear Son; our title has not to be made out, it has been already secured
to us. The precious blood is our title, and He who shed it has gone withinthe veil to present it, as our Representative. Our meetness and qualification
for heaven and for glory has not to be bestowed, it has been already given.
Our meetness is the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us. The moment the Holy
Ghost enters the soul of a believing sinner, that man is as meet for glory
as if he lived in the school of grace for a thousand years.
Our inheritance is secure, and, Our fellowship is with the Father, and
with his Son Jesus Christ (1 John 1:3, j).
And if we are left here it is because the Lord has need of our emptiness,
our weakness, the variety of our temptations and temperaments, the pecu-
liar character of our corruptions, the disappointments, the dangers and
difficulties with which His poor people are possessed and surrounded, that
it may be made manifest that there never was a case, or a circumstance, or
a sorrow, or a sin, or a difficulty, for which there was not a remedy and a
supply in His fullness and in His love. Our need suits His fullness, and His
fullness corresponds to our need; there must needs be the infinite variety
of cases, and of characters, of temptations, and necessities, which exist
among the children of God, in order that there may be full scope, occasion
and opportunity for displaying the infinite varieties of the fullness, the
love, grace, mercy, and salvation, laid up in the Lord Jesus Christ for His
dear people, and that in their relief and deliverance from all their troubles,
He might win for Himself an everlasting name.
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C F, P H
Week 1 / Tuesday
Resolved to Do His Will
I have come down from heaven,
not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
(John 6: 38)
I fear it is common for professed Christians to overlook the state of mind in
which God requires them to be as a condition of answering their prayers.
For example, in offering the Lords Prayer, Thy kingdom come, it is plain
that sincerity in offering this petition implies the whole heart and life devo-tion of the petitioner to the building up of this kingdom. It implies the
sincere and thorough consecration of all that we have and all that we are to
this end. To utter this petition in any other state of mind involves hypocrisy
and is an abomination. So [it is] in the next petition, Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. God has not promised to hear this petition unless
it is sincerely offered. But sincerityimplies a state of mind that accepts the
whole revealed will of God, so far as we understand it, as they accept it in
heaven. It implies a loving, confiding, universal obedience to the whole
known will of God, whether that will is revealed in His Word, by His Spirit,
or in His Providence. It implies that we hold ourselves and all that we have
and are as absolutely and cordially at Gods disposal as do the inhabitants
of heaven. If we fall short of this and withhold anything whatever from
God, we regard iniquity in our hearts, and God will not hear us.
Sincerity in offering this petition implies a state of entire and universal
consecration to God. Anything short of this is withholding from God that
which is His due. It is turning away our ear from hearing the law. But
what saith the Scriptures? He that turneth away his ear from hearing the
law, even his prayer shall be an abomination. Do professed Christians
understand this?
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J G, A S E M P
Week 1 / Wednesday
Self-Examination and the Love of God
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
(1 John 1:7)
Self-examination should always precede Confession. The business of those
that are advanced to the degree of which we now treat, is to lay their whole
souls open before God, who will not fail to enlighten them, and enable
them to see the peculiar nature of their faults. This examination, however,should be peaceful and tranquil, and we should depend on God for the
discovery and knowledge of our sins, rather than on the diligence of our
own scrutiny.
When we examine with constraint, and in the strength of our own
endeavours, we are easily deceived and betrayed by self-love into error; we
believe the evil good, and the good evil (Isaiah 5:20); but when we lie in
full exposure before the Sun of Righteousness, His Divine beams render
the smallest atoms visible.
When souls have attained to this, no fault escapes reprehension. Suchis the scrutiny of Him who suffers no evil to be concealed; and under His
purifying inf luence the one way is to turn affectionately to our Judge, and
bear with meekness the pain and correction He inflicts. Experience will
convince the soul that it is a thousand times more effectually examined by
His Divine Light than by the most active and vigorous self-inspection.
Those who tread these paths should be informed of a matter respect-
ing their Confession in which they are apt to err. When they begin to give
an account of their sins, instead of the regret and contrition they had been
accustomed to feel, they find that love and tranquility sweetly pervade andtake possession of their souls: now those who are not properly instructed
are desirous of withdrawing from this sensation, to form an act of contri-
tion, because they have heard, and with truth, that it is requisite: but they
are not aware that they lose thereby the genuine contrition, which is this
Intuitive Love, infinitely surpassing any effect produced by self-exertion.
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Hoping in God Alone
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within
me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
(Psalm 42:5 -6 )
There is in prayer an unbosoming of a persons self, an opening of the heart
to God, a deeply felt pouring out of the soul in requests, sighs, and groans.
All my longings lie open before you, O Lord, my sighing is not hidden
from you, says David (Psalm 38:9, ). This is the prayer to which thepromise is made for the delivering of the poor creature out of captivity:
But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look
for him with all your heart and with all your soul (Deuteronomy 4:29,
).
Prayer must be a pouring out of the heart and soul to God. This shows
the excellency of the spirit of prayer. It is the great God of the universe to
whom prayer attends. When shall we come and appear before God? We
pray when we see an emptiness in all things under heaven. We see that in
God alone there is rest and satisfaction for the soul. The widow who is
really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night
and day to pray and to ask God for help (1 Timothy 5:5, ). So says
David, In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.
Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; turn your ear to me and
save me. Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command
to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God,
from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of evil and cruel men. For you
have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth
(Psalm 71:1-5, ). To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay,
and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned
about except God. And that, as I said before, it does in a sincere, sensible,
and affectionate way.
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The Mountain Is Still Open
I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My
help comes from the L, who made heaven and earth. He will not
allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
(Psalm 121:1-3, nkjv)
After forty years of exile for his championship of Gods people, the shepherd-
prince found the God of Israel. He was not a stranger to Him in Egypt. He
had renounced the privileges and pleasures of a royal palace and cast in hislot with the afflicted people of his race. He had given proof of his zeal for
the Most High, but he had never had a personal revelation of Him till he
found Him that day in the mount. It is there He reveals Himself as nowhere
else. He manifests Himself to those who pray in secret as He cannot to
those who have no inner sanctuary of the soul.
Moses found the will of God in the mount. It was there he received the
law. After forty days alone with God he brought heavens laws to earth on
two tablets of stone. Those laws remain to this day the foundation of all
righteous government among men. After centuries of progress they are still
the basis of civilization.
He not only received the Commandments which were to be the corner-
stones of good government for all time; he also received directions concern-
ing local and personal details. The way to the mount is still open. The
divine pattern of each life is still to be seen in the secret place of the Most
High God. The humblest follower of Jesus may know the Divine Will at
first hand. It is every mans privilege to be fully assured in the will of God.
The Divine attention to detail is amazing. Nothing is too trivial for
Omniscience. Come straight to God. Do not bother other people. Lay all
questions naked before Him, and He will make it plain to you what is His
will. When God speaks, His speech is easily understood. All questions of
the plain should be settled in the mount, and where there is certainty in the
mount there will be victory on the levels and in the valleys.
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Faith to Grasp His Faithfulness
Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be added to you.
(Matthew 6: 33 )
Though his father and the Society which ultimately sent him to China both
offered to help with his expenses, he felt he must not lose the opportunity
of further testing the promises of God. There was nothing between him
and want in [London] save the faithfulness of God. Before leaving he hadwritten to his mother:
I am indeed proving the truth of that word, Thou wilt keep him in per-
fect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. My
mind is quite as much at rest as, nay more than, it would be if I had a
hundred pounds in my pocket. May He keep me ever thus, simply
depending on Him for every blessing, temporal as well as spiritual.
And to his sister Amelia:
No situation has turned up in London that will suit me, but I am not con-
cerned about it, as HE is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. His
love is unfailing, His Word unchangeable, His power ever the same; there-
fore the heart that trusts Him is kept in perfect peace. I know He tries
me only to increase my faith, and that it is all in love. Well, if He is glori-
fied, I am content.
For the future, near as well as distant, Hudson Taylor had one all-
sufficient confidence. If that could fail, it were better to make the discovery
in London than far away in China. Deliberately and of his own free will, he
cut himself off from possible sources of supply. It was God, the living God
he needed a stronger faith to grasp His faithfulness, and more experi-
ence of the practicability of dealing with Him about every situation.
Comfort or discomfort in London, means or lack of means, seemed a small
matter compared with deeper knowledge of the One on whom everything
depends.