PRAY ALWAYS PRAY THE HOLY SPIRIT PLEEDS WITH MANKIND!!! OUR CREATOR has ordained PRAYER as a means whereby He will do things through men as they PRAY, which He would not otherwise do. PRAYER is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.... When we say that PRAYER PUTS GOD TO WORK!!! it is simply to say that MAN HAS IT IN HIS POWER BY PRAYER TO MOVE GOD TO WORK IN HIS OWN WAY AMONG MEN, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made... Thus while prayer moves God to work, at the same time GOD PUT PRAYER TO WORK. As God has ordained prayer, and as prayer has no existence separate from men, but involves men, then logically prayer is the one force which puts God to work in earths affairs through men and their prayers... If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, PRAYERLESSNESS RULES GOD OUT OF THE WORLDS AFFAIRS..... AND PREVENTS HIM FROM WORKING. And if prayer moves God to work in this worlds affairs, then prayerlessness excludes God from everything concerning men, and leaves man on earth the mere creature of circumstances, at the mercy of blind fate or without help of any kind from God. It leaves man in this world with its tremendous responsibilities and its difficult problems, and with all of its sorrows, burdens and afflictions, without any God at all. In reality the denial of prayer is a denial of God Himself, for GOD AND PRAYER ARE SO, SO INSEPARABLE THAT THEY CAN NEVER BE DIVORCED.... Prayer affects three different spheres of existence - the divine, the angelic and the human. It puts God to work, it puts angels to work, and it puts man to work. It lays its hands upon God, angels and men. HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU CREATOR!!! What a wonderful reach there is in prayer!!! It brings into play the forces of heaven and earth. God, angels and men are subjects of this wonderful law of prayer, and all these have to do with the possibilities and the results of prayer. God has so far placed Himself subject to prayer that by reason of His own appointment, He is induced to work among men in a way in which He does not work if men do not pray. Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer. Prayer puts God to work in all things prayed for. While man in his weakness and poverty waits, trusts and prays, God undertakes the work. For from old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside thee, which worketh for him that waiteth for thee. Jesus Christ commits Himself to the force of prayer. Whatsoever ye ask in My Name, He says, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it. And again: If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you. To no other energy is the promise of God committed as to that of prayer. Upon no other force are the purposes of God so dependent as this one of prayer. The Word of God dilates on the results and necessity of prayer. The work of God stays or advances as prayer puts forth its strength. Prophets and apostles have urged the utility, force and necessity of prayer. I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth..... Prayer, with its antecedents and attendants, is the one and only condition of the final triumph of the Gospel. It is the one and only condition which honours the Father and glorifies the Son. Little and poor praying has weakened Christs power on earth, postponed the glorious results of His reign, and retired God from His sovereignty. Prayer puts Gods work in His hands, and keeps it there. It looks to Him constantly and depends on Him implicitly to further His own cause. Prayer is but faith resting in, acting with, and leaning on and obeying God. This is why God loves it so well, why He puts all power into its hands, and why He so highly esteems. men of prayer. Every movement for the advancement of the Gospel must be created by and inspired by prayer. In all these movements of God, prayer precedes and attends as an invariable and necessary condition... In this relation, God makes prayer identical in force and power with Himself, and says to those on earth who pray: You are on the earth to carry on My cause. I am in heaven, the Lord of all, the Maker of all, the Holy One of all. Now whatever you need for My cause, ask Me and I will do it. Shape the future by your prayers, and all that you need for present supplies, COMMAND YE ME!!!!. I made heaven and earth, and all things in them. Ask largely. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. It is MY work which you are doing. It concerns My cause. Be prompt and full in praying. Do not abate your asking, and I will not wince nor abate in My giving. COMMAND YE ME SAITH THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE TO MANKIND!!!!!! Everywhere in His Word God conditions His actions on prayer. Everywhere in His Word His actions and attitude are shaped by prayer. Mankind has personal relations with God.... Prayer is the divinely appointed means by which man comes into direct connection with God. By His own ordinance God holds Himself bound to hear prayer. God bestows His great good on His children when they seek it along the avenue of prayer.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:47:19 +0000
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