tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127268842024-02-08T04:37:24.112-08:00Jesus Is UsThe Spirit of Jesus Is among Us, lives in each of us and Jesus promised He would be with Us always.Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-32088165714318693012018-09-30T07:46:00.000-07:002018-09-30T07:46:51.985-07:00With Christ in the School of Prayer, a 31-lesson summary<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-41158335-7fff-04b1-bb97-717b54c76898" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">works on prayer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. If we would follow his teaching</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When I say "Master's" I speak of our Lord Jesus our</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Summarized here is this Inspired work by Andrew Murray</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Bolding</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> of type is used on purpose so the main points pop</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">lesson, there is link provided so you can read the</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">whole chapter from his original text, free online.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">It's my view, if,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> when you take, spend an intensive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">month, taking a lesson a day, it will bring you into</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a prayer life as it is intended to be</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. It will be like</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">how wonderful it is to live everyday in His Presence</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">and in communication and fellowship with Him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Take a chapter or lesson a day. He wrote 31 lessons,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Partner with someone else as you do it.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> I am</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in an extra level of power and insight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">With Christ in the School</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">of Prayer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> by Andrew Murray,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">first copyrighted 1895, read and studied by millions as</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/09/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-1-only.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/09/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-1-only.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-2-true.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-2-true.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-3-alone.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-3-alone.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-4-model.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-4-model.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-5.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/10/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-5.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-6.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-6.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-all.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-all.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-8.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-8.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 9</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Prayer provides Laborers</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-9.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-9.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 10, Prayer must be Definite</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-10.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-10.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 11, The Faith that Takes</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-11.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-11.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 12, Secret of Believing Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-12.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-12.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 13, Prayer and Fasting, the power erupts.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-13.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/11/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-13.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 14, Prayer and Love</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-14.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-14.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 15, Power of United Prayer</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-15.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-15.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 16, the Power of Persevering Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-16.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-16.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 17, Prayer in Harmony with God.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-17.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-17.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 18, In Harmony with the Destiny of Man.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-18-in.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-18-in.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 19, Power for Praying and Working.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-19.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-19.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 20, The Chief End of Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-20.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-20.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 21, the All Inclusive Condition.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-21-all.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-21-all.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 22, The Word and Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-22-word.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-22-word.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 23, Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-23.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2012/12/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-23.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 24, The All-Powerful Plea, Using His Name.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-24-all.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-24-all.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 25, The Holy Spirit in Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-25-holy.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-25-holy.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 26, Christ the Intercessor,</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-26.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-26.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 27, Christ the High Priest.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-27.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-27.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 28, Christ the Sacrifice</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-28.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-28.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 29, Our Boldness in Prayer</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-29-our.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-29-our.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 30, Magnificent Ministry of Intercession.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-30.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-30.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chapter 31, Our Life of Prayer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-31-our.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2013/01/with-christ-in-school-of-prayer-31-our.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Murray concludes with... we are prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Our life is prayer in motion all the time.</span></div>
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Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-28697268529160636942013-06-22T09:29:00.001-07:002013-10-07T18:10:24.932-07:00Divine Healing ... our body is the Lords<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4f95afaa-6cb1-dca6-9d95-3118bcc65314" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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by Andrew Murray has much to say about the Holy Spirit’s place in our
lives. In all aspects of our lives, the position, habitation, being a
Temple for the Holy Spirit, is emphasized greatly by Andrew Murray. To
walk in all of God’s Power is so important to live to the level of life
God wants us to live in Spirit. Here are some<b> excerpts from </b></span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Divine Healing</b> </span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and a link to the book online. The excerpts are from chapters 8 and 9.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“<b>Faith
puts us in possession of all that the death of Christ and His
resurrection have procured for us,</b> and it is not only in our spirit and
our soul that the life of the risen Jesus manifests its presence here
below; it is in the body also that it would act according to the measure
of our faith,</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>When
the body is fully subjected to Christ, crucified with Him, renouncing
all self-will and independence, desiring nothing but to be the Lord's
temple, it is then that the Holy Spirit manifests the power of the risen
Savior in the body. </b>Then only can we glorify God in our body, leaving
Him full freedom to manifest therein His power, to show that <b>He knows
how to set His temple free from the domination of sickness, sin, and
Satan. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Many
believers fail to watch over their bodies fail to observe a holy
sobriety</b> so as to avoid rendering their bodies unfit for the service of
God. <b>Eating and drinking should never impede communion with God</b>; their
purpose is, rather, to facilitate communion by maintaining the body in
its normal condition.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>He
would make us understand that we have regarded our body as our own
property, while it belonged to the Lord;</b> and that the Holy Spirit seeks
to sanctify all its actions. He leads us to understand that <b>if we yield
our body unreservedly to the influence of the Holy Spirit, we shall
experience His power in us</b>, and He will heal us by bringing into our
body the very life of Jesus; He leads us, in short, to say with full
conviction, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"The body is... for the Lord."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/Murray.Divine.Healing.html#VIII" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/Murray.Divine.Healing.html#VIII</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 20, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a praying person stirs others to pray:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> “God
works in my behalf. If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I
should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.”</b>—Martin Luther<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
call now of prayer to every saint is the Spirit’s loudest and most
exigent call</b>. Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer.
The <b>gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at
their prayers early and late and long</b>. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where
are the Christly leaders who can teach the modern saints how to pray
and put them at it? Do we know we are raising up a prayerless set of
saints? <b>Where are the apostolic leaders who can put God’s people to
praying? </b>Let them come to the front and do the work, and it will be the
greatest work which can be done. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The chief ones must lead in the apostolic effort to radicate the vital importance and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fact</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
of prayer in the heart and life of the Church. <b>None but praying leaders
can have praying followers. Praying apostles will beget praying saints</b>.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We
are not a generation of praying saints</b>. Non-praying saints are a
beggarly gang of saints who have neither the ardor nor the beauty nor
the power of saints. <b>Who will restore this breach?</b> The greatest will he
be of <b>reformers and apostles, who can set the Church to praying</b>.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Natural
ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this
matter</b>; but capacity for faith, the ability to pray, the power of
thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute
losing of one’s self in God’s glory, and an ever-present and insatiable
yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God—<b>men who can set the
Church ablaze for God; not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense
and quiet heat that melts and moves everything for God. </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>God
can work wonders if he can get a suitable man... who prays.</b> Men who can stir things
mightily for God, whose spiritual revolutions change the whole aspect of
things, are the universal need of the Church.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
past has not exhausted the possibilities nor the demands for doing
great things for God</b>. The Church that is dependent on its past history
for its miracles of power and grace is a fallen Church.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Let us pray ardently that God’s promise to prayer may be more than realized</b>.</span></span><br />
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library has many great classic works on
Christian Growth by the best of the Saints of Old whose Inspired
insights have endured through the ages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 19, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">deliberation necessary for great results in prayer:<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Our
devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of their essence</b>.
The <b>ability to wait and stay and press belongs essentially to our
intercourse with God</b>. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the
companions of hurry.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Short
devotions deplete spiritual vigor, arrest spiritual progress, sap
spiritual foundations</b>. They are the prolific source of backsliding, the
sure indication of a superficial piety; they deceive, blight, rot the
seed, and impoverish the soil. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the <b>praying
men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling
hour.</b> They won by few words but long waiting. The prayers Moses records
may be short, but <b>Moses prayed to God with fastings and mighty cryings
forty days and nights</b>. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
statement of Elijah’s praying may be condensed to a few brief
paragraphs, but doubtless <b>Elijah</b>, who <b>when “praying he prayed</b>,” spent
many hours of fiery struggle and lofty intercourse with God before he
could, with assured boldness. The verbal brief of <b>Paul’s prayers is
short, but Paul “prayed night and day exceedingly</b>.” The “Lord’s Prayer”
is a divine epitome for infant lips, but the man<b> Christ Jesus prayed
many an all-night </b>ere his work was done; and his all-night and
long-sustained devotions gave to his work its finish and perfection, and
to his character the fullness and glory of its divinity.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Spiritual
work is taxing work</b>, and men are loath to do it. <b>Praying, true praying,
costs an outlay of serious attention and of time,</b> which flesh and blood
do not relish. Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will
make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
We can habituate ourselves to our beggarly praying until it looks well
to us. We can slight our praying, and not realize the peril till the
foundations are gone.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Hurried
devotions make weak faith, feeble convictions</b>, questionable piety. To
be little with God is to be little for God. To cut short the praying
makes the whole religious character short, scrimp, and slovenly.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>It
takes good time for the full flow of God into the spirit</b>. Short
devotions cut the pipe of God’s full flow. <b>It takes time in the secret
places to get the full revelation of God</b>. Little time and hurry mar the
picture.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Our
ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay
with God out of the closet.</b> Hasty closet visits are deceptive,
defaulting. We are not only deluded by them, but we are losers by them
in many ways and in many rich legacies. <b>Tarrying in the closet instructs
and wins. We are taught by it, and the greatest victories are often the
results of great waiting</b>—<b>waiting till words and plans are exhausted,
and silent and patient waiting gains the crown</b>. Jesus Christ asks with
an affronted emphasis, “<b>Shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day
and night unto him?</b>”<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>To
pray is the greatest thing we can do: and to do it well there must be
calmness, time, and deliberation</b>; otherwise it is degraded into the
littlest and meanest of things. <b>True praying has the largest results for
good</b>; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real
praying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We must learn anew the worth of prayer, enter anew the school
of prayer</b>.</span></span><br />
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personal contact: 4spirit@gmail.com<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br />Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power<b> </b></i></span><i><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>through Prayer</i>.</span></b></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 18, <b>ministers need the prayer of the people</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(One note is we all are called to be ministers. We all have a place in minister. So we all need the prayers of each other.)<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer,
to the preacher</b>, is not simply the duty of his profession, a privilege,<b>
but it is a necessity.</b> Air is not more necessary to the lungs than
prayer is to the preacher. It is absolutely necessary for the preacher
to pray. <b>It is an absolute necessity that the preacher be prayed for.</b>
These two propositions are wedded into a union which ought never to know
any divorce: </span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the <b>preacher must pray</b>; the <b>preacher must be prayed for</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.<b> </b></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
holier a man is</b>, the more does he estimate prayer; <b>the clearer does he
see that God gives himself to the praying ones</b>, and that the measure of
God’s revelation to the soul is the measure of the soul’s longing,
importunate prayer for God.</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b> more the minister’s eyes are opened to the nature</b>, responsibility, and <b>
difficulties in his work</b>, the more will he see, and if he be a true
minister t<b>he more will he feel, the necessity of prayer</b>; not only the
increasing demand to pray himself, but <b>to call on others to help him by
their prayers</b>.<b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Paul
did not feel that this urgent plea for prayer was to lower his dignity</b>,
lessen his influence, or depreciate his piety. <b>Called, commissioned,
chief of the Apostles as he was, all his equipment was imperfect without
the prayers of his people</b>. He wrote letters everywhere, urging them to
pray for him. Do you pray for others who minister? Do you pray for them
in secret? <b>Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on
or followed up by private praying.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The plea and purpose of the apostles were to put the Church to praying</b>.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>“Put
the saints everywhere to praying” is the burden of the apostolic effort
and the keynote of apostolic success</b>. Jesus Christ had striven to do
this in the days of his personal ministry. As he was moved by infinite
compassion at the ripened fields of earth perishing for lack of laborers
and pausing in his own praying—<b>he tries to awaken the sensibilities of
his disciples to the duty of prayer as he charges them</b>, “Pray ye the
Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.”
“And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that <b>men ought always to
pray and not to faint</b>.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 17, <b>prayer marks Spiritual leadership</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
apostles knew the necessity and worth of prayer to their ministry. They
knew that their <b>high commission as apostles, instead of relieving them
from the necessity of prayer, committed them to it by a more urgent
need;</b> so that they were exceedingly jealous else some other important
work should exhaust their time and prevent their praying as they ought;
so they appointed laymen to look after the delicate and engrossing
duties of ministering to the poor, that they (<b>the apostles) might,
unhindered, “give themselves continually to prayer and to the ministry
of the word.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer
is put first, and their relation to prayer is put most strongly—“give
themselves to it,” making a business of it</b>, surrendering themselves to
praying, putting fervor, urgency, perseverance, and time in it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How
holy, apostolic men devoted themselves to this divine work of prayer!
“<b>Night and day praying exceedingly,” says Paul. “We will give ourselves
continually to prayer” is the consensus of apostolic devotement.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Apostolic
praying was as taxing, toilsome, and imperative</b> as apostolic preaching.
They prayed mightily day and night to bring their people to the highest
regions of faith and holiness. <b>They prayed mightier still to hold them
to this high spiritual altitude</b>.<b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer
is one of the eminent characteristics of strong spiritual leadership.</b>
Men of mighty prayer are men of might and mold things. <b>Their power with
God has the conquering tread</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A
<b>prayerless Christian will never learn God’s truth; a prayerless
ministry will never be able to teach God’s truth</b>. Ages of millennial
glory have been lost by a prayerless Church. The <b>coming of our Lord has
been postponed indefinitely by a prayerless Church</b>. Hell has enlarged
herself and filled her dire caves in the presence of the dead service of
a prayerless Church.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 16,<b> much prayer is the price of the anointing, the unction</b>:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
the Christian system<b> unction is the anointing of the Holy Spirit,
separating unto God’s work and qualifying for it.</b> This unction is the
o<b>ne divine enablement by which accomplishes the peculiar and saving ends
of all efforts for Christ. Without this unction there are no true
spiritual results accomplished; the results and forces do not rise above
the results of unsanctified speech.</b> Without unction the former is as
potent as any human speaker.<b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>This
unction may be simulated. There are many things that look like it,
there are many results that resemble its effects; but they are foreign
to its results and to its nature</b>. The fervor or softness excited by a
pathetic or emotional speech may look like the movements of the divine
unction, but they have no pungent, perpetrating heart-breaking force. <b>No
heart-healing balm is there in these surface, sympathetic, emotional
movements</b>; they are not radical, neither sin-searching nor sin-curing.<b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>This
unction is the consecration force,</b> and its presence the continuous test
of that consecration.<b> It is this divine anointing on the preacher that
secures his consecration to God and his work</b>. Other forces and motives
may call him to the work, but this only is consecration. <b>A separation to
God’s work by the power of the Holy Spirit is the only consecration
recognized by God as legitimate</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This
divine and heavenly oil put on it by the imposition of God’s hand<b> must
soften and lubricate the whole man—heart, head, spirit—until it
separates him with a mighty separation from all earthly, secular,
worldly, selfish motives and aims, separating him to everything that is
pure and Godlike</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
is that which <b>transforms him into the image of his divine Master</b>, as
well as that by which he <b>declares the truths of Christ with power</b>. It is
so much the power in the ministry as to make all else seem feeble and
vain without it, and by its presence to atone for the absence of all
other and feebler forces.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
is <b>a conditional gift</b>, and its presence is perpetuated and increased by
the same process by which it was at first secured; <b>by unceasing prayer
to God</b>, by impassioned desires after God, by seeking it with tireless
ardor, by deeming all else loss and failure without it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How
and whence comes this unction? <b>Direct from God in answer to prayer</b>.
Praying hearts only are the hearts filled with this holy oil; praying
lips only are anointed with this divine unction.<b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer,
much prayer, is the price of preaching, speaking, the presenter,
unction; prayer, much prayer, is the one, sole condition of keeping this
unction</b>. Without unceasing prayer the unction never comes to the person
sharing Christ’s message. Without perseverance in prayer, the unction,
like the manna overkept, breeds worms.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on much prayer is the price of the anointing, the unction.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 15, <b>Unction ... Penetrating Power</b>:</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Unction
is that indefinable, indescribable something</b> which an old, renowned
Scotch preacher describes thus: “There is sometimes somewhat in
preaching that cannot be ascribed either to matter or expression, or
from where it comes, but <b>with a sweet violence it pierces into the heart
and affections and comes immediately from the Word</b>.”</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We
call it unction. It is this <b>unction which makes the word of God “quick
and powerful,</b> and sharper than any two-edged sword,<b> piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart</b>.” It is this unction
which <b>gives</b> such point, <b>sharpness, and power</b>, and which creates such
friction and stir in many. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A
<b>baptism of this unction, makes the letter of the Word become
embellished and fired by a mysterious power, in that a throbbing of life
begins</b>—life which receives or life which resists. The unction pervades
and convicts the conscience and breaks the heart. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Unction
is simply putting God in his own word</b>.<b> By mighty and great
prayerfulness</b> and by continual prayerfulness, it is all potential and
personal to the speaker; it<b> inspires and clarifies</b> his intellect, gives
<b>insight and grasp and projecting power</b>; it <b>gives to the person heart
power</b>, which is <b>greater than head power</b>; and <b>tenderness, purity, force
flow from the heart by it</b>.<br /><br /> <b>Enlargement, freedom, fullness of thought,
directness and simplicity of utterance are the fruits of this unction</b>. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This
unction comes to the preacher not in the study but in the closet. <b>It is
heaven’s distillation in answer to prayer. It is the sweetest
exhalation of the Holy Spirit. It impregnates, suffuses, softens,
percolates, cuts, and soothes</b>. It <b>carries</b> the <b>Word like dynamite</b>, like
salt, like sugar; makes the Word a soother, an arranger, a revealer, a
searcher; makes the hearer a culprit or a saint,<b> makes him weep like a
child and live like a giant; opens his heart and his purse as gently,
yet as strongly as the spring opens the leaves. </b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This
unction is not the gift of genius. It is not found in the halls of
learning. No eloquence can woo it. No industry can win it. No prelatical
hands can confer it.<b> It is the gift of God</b>—the signet set to his own
messengers. It is heaven’s knighthood <b>given to the chosen true and brave
ones who have sought this anointed honor through many an hour of
tearful, wrestling prayer</b>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
takes a diviner endowment, a more powerful energy than earnestness or
genius or thought to break the chains of sin, <b>to win estranged and
depraved hearts to God</b>, to repair the breaches and<b> restore the Church</b> to
her old ways of <b>purity and power</b>. Nothing but this holy unction can do
this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on unction ... penetrating power:</span></div>
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passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 14, <b>unction is the difference</b>:</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Bounds
uses the word<b> “unction”</b> in this discourse; whereas, being passionate
about what you share is a modern expression. Better yet, it is only by
the Anointing of the Holy Spirit that produces this unction, conviction,
a pointed-power in speaking.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“There
was no eloquence—the honest man never dreamed of such a thing, but
there was far better: a cordial communication of vitalized truth. I say
vitalized because what he declared to others it was impossible not to
feel he lived on himself.”</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This<b>
unction is the art of communicating</b>. The person who never had this
unction never had the art of speaking. The <b>person who has lost this
unction has lost the art of influence</b>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whatever
other arts he may have and retain? ...the art of speak-making, the art
of eloquence, the art of great, clear thinking, the art of pleasing an
audience? He has lost the divine art of speaking. This <b>unction makes
God’s truth powerful and interesting, draws and attracts, edifies,
convicts, saves</b>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This
<b>unction vitalizes God’s revealed truth, makes it living and
life-giving</b>. Even God’s truth spoken without this unction is light,
dead, and deadening. Though abounding in truth, though weighty with
thought, though sparkling with rhetoric, <b>though pointed by logic, though
powerful by earnestness, without this divine unction it issues in death
and not in life</b>. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Spurgeon says: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I
wonder how long we might beat our brains before we could plainly put
into word what is meant by preaching with unction. Yet he who preaches
knows its presence, and he who hears soon detects its absence. Every one
knows what the freshness of the morning is when orient pearls abound on
every blade of grass, but<b> who can describe it, much less produce it of
itself? Such is the mystery of spiritual anointing.</b> <b>We know, but we
cannot tell to others what it is</b>. It is as easy as it is foolish, to
counterfeit it. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Unction
is a thing which you cannot manufacture, and its counterfeits are worse
than worthless</b>. Yet it is,<b> in itself, priceless, and beyond measure
needful if you would edify believers and bring sinners to Christ</b>.”</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on unction is the difference:</span></div>
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 13, the <b>heart not the head changes lives</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b>heart is the Saviour of the world</b>.<b> Heads do not save. Genius, brains,
brilliancy, strength, natural gifts do not save. The gospel flows
through hearts. All the mightiest forces are heart forces</b>. Great hearts
make great characters; great hearts make divine characters. God is
love. Hearts make heaven; heaven is love. </span></div>
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<b>It is the heart and not the head which makes God’s great people of God.</b>
The heart counts much every way in religion. The heart must speak from
the pulpit. The heart must hear in the pew. In fact, <b>we serve God with
our hearts</b>. Head homage does not pass current in heaven. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A <b>theological school to enlarge and cultivate the heart is the golden desideratum of the gospel</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>It
is easier to fill the head than it is to prepare the heart</b>. It is
easier to make a brain sermon than a heart sermon. It was heart that
drew the Son of God from heaven. It is heart that will draw men to
heaven. <b>Men of heart is what the world needs to sympathize with its woe,
to kiss away its sorrows, to compassionate its misery, and to alleviate
its pain.</b> Christ was eminently the man of sorrows, because he was
preeminently the man of heart.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Give me thy heart,” is God’s requisition of men. “Give me thy heart!” is man’s demand of man.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>A
professional ministry is a heartless ministry</b>. <b>When salary plays a
great part in the ministry, the heart plays little part. We may make
preaching our business, and not put our hearts in the business.</b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
closet is the heart’s study. We will learn more about how to speak and
what to say it there than we can learn in our libraries</b>. “Jesus wept” is
the shortest and biggest verse in the Bible. It is <b>he who goes forth </b></span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">weeping</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> (not speaking great speeches), bearing precious seed, who shall come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on the heart not the head changes lives:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.XIII.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.XIII.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 12, <b>Heart Preparation is Necessary:</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Praying
makes the presenter a heart presenter.</b> Prayer puts the presenter’s
heart into the presenter’s message; <b>prayer puts the presenter’s message
into the presenter’s heart</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">T<b>he
heart makes the preacher. Men of great hearts are great preachers</b>. Men
of bad hearts may do a measure of good, but this is rare. The hireling
and the stranger may help the sheep at some points, but <b>it is the good
shepherd with the good shepherd’s heart who will bless the sheep and
answer the full measure of the shepherd’s place</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We
have emphasized preparation until we have lost sight of the important
thing to be prepared—the heart</b>. <b>A prepared heart is much better than a
prepared message. A prepared heart will make a prepared presentation.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We
have thereby cultivated a vicious taste among the people and raised the
clamor for talent instead of grace, eloquence instead of piety,
rhetoric instead of revelation, reputation and brilliancy instead of
holiness.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But
<b> our great lack is</b> not in head culture, but <b>in heart culture</b>; not lack
of knowledge but lack of holiness is our sad and telling defect—not that
we know too much, but that <b>we do not meditate on God and his word and
watch and fast and pray enough</b>. The heart is the great hindrance to our
preaching, our presenting, our sharing. Words pregnant with divine truth
find in our hearts nonconductors; arrested, they fall shorn and
powerless. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>God’s
revelation</b> does not need the light of human genius, the polish and
strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of
human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it <b>does demand the simplicity,
the docility, humility, and faith of a child’s heart.</b> </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Our
great need is heart-preparation.</b> Luther held it as an axiom: <b>“He who
has prayed well has studied well.”</b> We do not say that men are not to
think and use their intellects; but <b>he will use his intellect best who
cultivates his heart most.</b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We
do say that he who has struggled with his own heart and conquered it;
who has taught it humility, faith, love, truth, mercy, sympathy,
courage; who can pour the rich treasures of the heart</b> thus trained,
through a manly intellect, <b>all surcharged with the power of the gospel
on the consciences of his hearers—such a one will be the truest, most
successful person in the esteem of his Lord.</b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on heart preparation is necessary:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.XII.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.XII.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in<i> Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 11, <b>a model of prayer devotion</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">God
has now, and has had, many of these devoted, <b>prayerful people in whose
lives prayer has been a mighty, controlling, conspicuous force</b>. The
world has felt their power, God has felt and honored their power, <b>God’s
cause has moved mightily and swiftly by their prayers</b>, holiness has
shone out in their characters with a divine effulgence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">God found <b>one of the men</b> He was looking for in <b>David Brainerd</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He
was “a young man of distingushed talents, had extraordinary knowledge
of men and things, had rare conversational powers, excelled in his
knowledge of theology. <b>His manner in prayer</b> was almost unmatchable, such as I have <b>
very rarely known equaled</b>. His learning was very considerable, and he
had extraordinary gifts for the pulpit.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was God’s man, for God first and last and all the time. <b>God could flow unhindered through him</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Brainerd
lived the life of holiness and prayer</b>. His diary is full and monotonous
with the record of his <b>seasons of fasting, meditation, and retirement</b>.
The time he spent in private prayer amounted to many hours daily. “When I
return home,” he said, “and give myself to meditation, prayer, and
fasting, <b>my soul longs for mortification, self-denial, humility, and
divorcement from all things of the world.</b>” “I have <b>nothing to do,” he
said, “with earth</b> but only to labor in it honestly for God. <b>I do not
desire to live one minute for anything which earth can afford</b>.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
had little life and power in the forenoon. Near the middle of the
afternoon God enabled me to wrestle ardently in intercession for my
absent friends, but <b>just at night the Lord visited me marvelously in
prayer</b>. I think my soul was never in such agony before. I was in such
agony till near dark that I was all over wet with sweat, but yet it
seemed to me I had done nothing. <b>O, my dear Saviour did sweat blood for
poor souls! I longed for more compassion toward them</b>.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It was <b>prayer</b> which<b> gave to his life and ministry their marvelous power</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The<b>
men of mighty prayer</b> are <b>men of spiritual might</b>. <b>Prayers never die</b>.
<br /><br /><b>Brainerd’s whole life was a life of prayer. By day and by night he
prayed</b>. Riding through the interminable solitudes of the forests he
prayed. On his bed of straw he prayed. Hour by hour, day after day,
early morn and late at night, he was praying and fasting, <b>pouring out
his soul, interceding, communing with God. He was with God mightily in
prayer, and God was with him mightily.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not
only in word and doctrine, in public and in private, but in prayers by
day and night,<b> wrestling with God in secret and travailing in birth with
unutterable groans and agonies, until Christ was formed in the hearts
of the people to whom he was sent.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on a model of prayer devotion:</span></div>
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in Power through Prayer.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 10, <b>prayer united with lofty devotion</b></span>:</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By every means, <b>modern sainthood must be inspired by the loftiest ideals and by the largest possibilities through the Spirit.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul
lived on his knees, that the Ephesian Church might measure the heights,
breadths, and depths of an unmeasurable saintliness, and <b>“be filled
with all the fullness of God.</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
divinest thing in religion is holy men and holy women</b>. No amount of
money, genius, or culture can move things for God. <b>Holiness energizing
the soul, the whole man aflame with love, with desire for more faith,
more prayer, more zeal, more consecration—this is the secret of power. </b>
These we need and must have, and<b> men must be the incarnation of this
God-inflamed devotedness</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brainerd’s
spirit was on fire for God, on fire for souls. <b>Nothing earthly,
worldly, selfish came in to abate in the least the intensity of this
all-impelling and all-consuming force and flame</b>. Prayer is the creator
as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit
of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united,
as life and the heart are united. <b>There is no real prayer without
devotion, no devotion without prayer. The person must be surrendered
to God in the holiest devotion.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
name and honor of <b>Jesus Christ, the advance of his cause, must be all
in all</b>. We must have no inspiration but the name of Jesus
Christ, no ambition but to have him glorified, no toil but for him. Then
<b> prayer will be a source of our illuminations, the means of perpetual
advance, the gauge of our success. The perpetual aim, the only ambition, we can cherish is to have God with us. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This
age may be a better age than the past, but there is an<b> infinite
distance between</b> the betterment of an age by the force of an<b> advancing
civilization</b> and its betterment by <b>the increase of holiness and
Christlikeness by the energy of prayer</b>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>It
is prayer-force which makes saints</b>. Holy characters are formed by the
power of real praying. <b>The more of true saints, the more of praying; the
more of praying, the more of true saints.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on prayer united with lofty devotion :</span></div>
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 9, <b>Begin the Day Hard after God</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“<b>I
ought to pray before seeing any one</b>. Often <b>when I sleep long</b>, or meet
with others early,<b> it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret
prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose
before day and went into a solitary place</b>. David says: “<b>Early will I
seek thee</b>”; “Thou <b>shalt early hear my voice</b>.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b>people who have done the most for God in this world have been early on
their knees</b>. He <b>who fritters away the early morning</b>, its opportunity and
freshness, <b>in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway
seeking him the rest of the day</b>. <b>If God is not first in our thoughts and
efforts in the morning, he will be in the last place the remainder of
the day</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Behind
this early rising and early praying is the ardent desire which presses
us into this pursuit after God.</b> Morning listlessness is the index to a
listless heart. <b>The heart which is behind in seeking God in the morning
has lost its relish for God.</b> <b>David’s heart was ardent after God. He
hungered and thirsted after God, and so he sought God early, before
daylight.</b> The bed and sleep could not chain his soul in its eagerness
after God.<b> Christ longed for communion with God; and so, rising a great
while before day</b>, he would go out into the mountain to pray.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>A
desire for God which cannot break the chains of sleep is a weak thing
and will do but little good for God after it has indulged itself fully.</b>
The desire for God that keeps so far behind the devil and the world at
the beginning of the day will never catch up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
desire aroused them and put them on the stretch for God</b>, and this
heeding and acting on the call gave their faith its grasp on God and
gave to their hearts the sweetest and fullest revelation of God, and <b>
this strength of faith and fullness of revelation made them saints by
eminence,</b> and the halo of their sainthood has come down to us, and we
have entered on the enjoyment of their conquests. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We
need a generation who seeks God and seeks him early, who give the
freshness and dew of effort to God, and secure in return the freshness
and fullness of his power</b> that he may be as the dew to them, full of
gladness and strength, through all the heat and labor of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our
laziness after God is our crying sin. The children of this world are
far wiser than we. They are at it early and late. We do not seek God
with ardor and diligence. <b>No man gets God who does not follow hard after
him</b>, and <b>no soul follows hard after God who is not after him in early
morn</b>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in Power through Prayer.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 8, <b>Examples of those Devoted to Prayer</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the online version of <i>Power Through Prayer</i>, there is an extra chapter on examples of praying men, and may I say women. <br class="kix-line-break" />“Men’ means mankind in general.. Here’s a few of those mentioned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Payson
wore the hard-wood boards into grooves where his knees pressed </b>so often
and so long. His biographer says: “His continuing instant in prayer, be
his circumstances what they might, is the most noticeable fact in his
history, and points out the duty of all who would rival his eminency. <b>To
his ardent and persevering prayers must no doubt be ascribed in a great
measure his distinguished and almost uninterrupted success</b>.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b> Marquis DeRenty</b>, to whom Christ was most precious, <b>ordered his servant
to call him from his devotions at the end of half an hour</b>. The servant
at the time saw his face through an aperture. It was marked with such
holiness that he hated to arouse him. His lips were moving, but he was
perfectly silent. <b>He waited until three half hours had passed; then he
called to him, when he arose from his knees, saying that the half hour
was so short when he was communing with Christ. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>William
Bramwell</b> is famous in Methodist annals for personal holiness and for
his wonderful success in preaching and for the marvelous answers to his
prayers. For hours at a time he would pray. <b>He almost lived on his
knee</b>s. He went over his circuits like a flame of fire. The fire was
kindled by the time he spent in prayer. <b>He often spent as much as four
hours in a single season of prayer in retirement.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Bishop Andrewes</b> spent the <b>greatest part of five hours every day in prayer</b> and devotion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Sir
Henry Havelock</b> always spent the f<b>irst two hours of each day alone with
God</b>. If the encampment was struck at 6 A.M., <b>he would rise at four</b>.</span></div>
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Cairns rose daily at six o’clock to secure an hour and a half for the
study of the Bible and for praye</b>r, before conducting family worship at a
quarter to eight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Dr.
Judson’s success in prayer</b> is attributable to the fact that he gave
much time to prayer. He says on this point: “<b>Arrange thy affairs, if
possible, so that thou canst leisurely devote two or three hours every
day not merely to devotional exercises but to the very act of secret
prayer and communion with God</b>. Endeavor<b> seven times a day to withdraw
from business</b> and company and lift up thy soul to God in private
retirement. <b>Begin the day by rising after midnight and devoting some
time amid the silence and darkness of the night to this sacred work</b>. Let
the hour of opening dawn find thee at the same work. <b>Let the hours of
nine, twelve, three, six, and nine at night</b> witness the same. Be
resolute in his cause. <b>Make all practicable sacrifices to maintain it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Power
which may last, not unfrequently in an earnest life, late into the
night hours, or even to the break of day.</b> Sometimes they refer to common
intercession with St. Paul as a concerted struggle. They have, <b>when
praying, their eyes fixed on the Great Intercessor</b> in Gethsemane, upon
the drops of blood which fall to the ground in that agony of resignation
and sacrifice.<b> Importunity is of the essence of successful prayer</b>.
Importunity means not dreaminess but<b> sustained work</b>. It is through
prayer especially that <b>the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the
violent take it by force</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 7, <b>Much Time Given to Prayer … by Great People</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Much
time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying.</b> Prayer
which is felt as <b>a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of
much time spent with God.</b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Jacob’s
victory of faith</b> could not have been gained without that <b>all-night
wrestling</b>. <b>God does not bestow his gifts on the casual or hasty comers
and goers.</b> <b>Much with God alone is the secret of knowing him and of
influence with him. He yields to the persistency of a faith that knows
him.</b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Christ</b>,
who in this as well as other things is <b>our Example</b>, spent <b>many whole
nights in prayer</b>. <b>His custom was to pray much</b>. He had his habitual place
to pray. <b>Many long seasons of praying make up his history and
character</b>. <b>Paul prayed day and night</b>. It took time from very important
interests for<b> Daniel</b> to pray <b>three times a day</b>. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b> men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character</b>, and have
<b>most powerfully affected the world for him</b>, have been men who <b>spent so
much time with God as to make it a notable feature of their lives. </b></span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Charles
Simeon</b> devoted the hours from <b>four till eight in the morning</b> to God.
Mr. <b>Wesley</b> spent <b>two hours daily</b> in prayer. He began at four in the
morning. Of him, one who knew him well wrote: “He thought prayer to be <b>
more his business than anything else</b>, and I have seen him come out of
his closet with a serenity of face next to shining.” </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>John
Fletcher stained the walls of his room by the breath of his prayers</b>.
Sometimes he <b>would pray all night</b>; always, frequently, and with great
earnestness. His whole life was a life of prayer. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Do
I meet you praying?” Luther said: “<b>If I fail to spend two hours in
prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day</b>. I have
so much business <b>I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in
prayer</b>.” He had a motto: “He that has prayed well has studied well.”</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Archbishop
Leighton was so much alone with God that he seemed to be in a perpetual
meditation. “Prayer and praise were his business and his pleasure,” </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Bishop
Ken</b> was with God <b>before the clock struck three every morning</b>. <b>Bishop
Asbury </b>said: “I propose to <b>rise at four o’clock</b> as often as I can and
spend two hours in prayer and meditation.” <b>Samuel Rutherford</b>, the
fragrance of whose piety is still rich, <b>rose at three in the morning </b>to
meet God in prayer. <b>Joseph Alleine arose at four o’clock </b>for his
business of <b>praying till eight</b>. If he heard other tradesmen plying their
business before he was up, he would exclaim: “O how this shames me!
Doth not my Master deserve more than theirs?”</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One
of the holiest and among the most gifted of Scotch preachers says: <b>“I
ought to spend the best hours in communion with God</b>. It is my noblest
and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into a corner. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>John
Welch</b>, the holy and wonderful Scotch preacher, thought <b>the day ill
spent if he did not spend eight or ten hours in prayer</b>. He kept a plaid
that he might wrap himself when he arose to pray at night. His wife
would complain when she found him lying on the ground weeping. He would
reply: “O woman,<b> I have the souls of three thousand to answer for</b>, and I
know not how it is with many of them!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Much Time Given to Prayer … by Great People</span></div>
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E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in<i> Power through Prayer</i>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 6, <b>Great People of Prayer, Success thru prayer:</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“<b>In
every truly successful mission, prayer is an evident and controlling
force—evident and controlling in the life of the person behind it,
evident and controlling in the deep spirituality of his work.</b> A mission
may be a very thoughtful mission without prayer; the<b> person may secure
fame and popularity without prayer</b>; the whole machinery of the person’s
life and work may be run without the oil of prayer or with scarcely
enough to grease one cog; <b>but no mission can be a spiritual one,
securing holiness in the person and in his people, without prayer being
made an evident and controlling force. </b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
apostles’ commission to preach was a blank till filled up by the
Pentecost which praying brought.<b> A prayerful minister has passed beyond
the regions of the popular, beyond the man of mere affairs, of
secularities, of presentation attractiveness. Holiness is the product of
his work; transfigured hearts. God is with him</b>. His ministry is <b>not
projected on worldly or surface principles</b>. He is deeply stored with and
deeply schooled in the things of God. His long, deep communings with
God about his people and the agony of his wrestling spirit have crowned
him as a prince in the things of God. The iciness of the mere
professional has long since melted under the intensity of his praying. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>God’s
true representatives have been distinguished by one great feature: they
were people of prayer.</b> Differing often in many things, they have always
had a common center. They may have started from different points, and
traveled by different roads, but they converged to one point: they were
one in prayer. <b>God to them was the center of attraction, and prayer was
the path that led to God. These men prayed not occasionally, but they
so prayed that their prayers entered into and shaped their characters;
they so prayed as to affect their own lives and the lives of others;</b>
they so prayed as to make the history of the Church and influence the
current of the times.<b> They spent much time in prayer</b>, not because they
marked the shadow on the dial or the hands on the clock, but <b>because it
was to them so momentous and engaging a business</b> that they could
scarcely give over. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>“The
effectual, fervent prayer” has been the mightiest weapon of God’s
mightiest soldiers.</b> The statement in regard to Elijah—that he “was a man
subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it
might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three
years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and
the earth brought forth her fruit”—<b>comprehends all prophets, preachers,
presenters who have moved their generation</b> for God, and <b>shows the
instrument by which they worked their wonders</b>.” </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Great People of Prayer, Success thru Prayer:</span><br /><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.VI.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.VI.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
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Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in Power through Prayer.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 5, Prayer Essentials, getting results from God:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
believers study ought to be a closet</b>, a Bethel, an altar, a vision, and
a ladder, that every thought might ascend heavenward ere it went
manward; that every part of his message might be <b>scented by the air of
heaven and made serious, because God was in the study</b>. <b>As the engine
never moves until the fire is kindled</b>, so <b>speaking/presenting</b>, with all
its machinery, perfection, and polish, <b>is at a dead standstill</b>, as far
as spiritual results are concerned, <b>till prayer has kindled and created
the steam.</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer,
as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a
professional way, is a dead and rotten thing</b>. <b>Prayer which is born of
vital oneness with Christ and the fullness of the Holy Ghost, which
springs from the deep</b>, overflowing fountains of tender compassion,
deathless solicitude for man’s eternal good; a consuming zeal for the
glory of God; a thorough conviction of the imperative need of God’s
mightiest help. <b>Praying grounded on these solemn and profound
convictions is the only true praying</b>. Preaching/speaking backed by such
praying is the only preaching which sows the seeds of eternal life in
human hearts and builds men up for heaven. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
is true that there may be popular preachers, preaching of much
intellectual, literary, and brainy force, with its measure and form of
good, with little or no praying; but <b>the preaching/speaking which
secures God’s end must be born of prayer delivered with the energy and
spirit of prayer</b>, followed and made to germinate, and <b>kept in vital
force in the hearts</b> of the hearers by the preacher’s prayers, <b>long after
the occasion has past. </b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>People
who gain mighty results for God are the people who have prevailed in
their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men</b>. The people who
are <b>the mightiest in their closets with God are the mightiest in their
talking with men</b>. </span></b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer
is humbling work</b>. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vain glory,
and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are <b>hard for flesh and
blood to bear</b>. It is easier not to pray than to bear them. So we come
to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times—little or
no praying. Of these two evils, <b>perhaps little praying is worse than no
praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a shallow lotion for
the conscience, a farce and a delusion</b>. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">T<b>o
men who think praying their main business and devote time</b> to it
according to this high estimate of its importance <b>does God commit the
keys of his kingdom</b>, and <b>by them does he work his spiritual wonders </b>in
this world. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Great
praying is the sign and seal of God’s great leaders</b> and the earnest of
the conquering forces with which God will crown their labors. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We
are commissioned to pray as well as to share</b>. Our mission is incomplete
if we do not do both well. We may speak with all the eloquence of men
and of angels; but unless he can pray with a faith which draws all
heaven to our aid, we will be “as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal”
for permanent God-honoring, soul-saving uses</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Prayer Essentials, getting results from God:</span><br /><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.V.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.V.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
<br />
<br />Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-42019128106221192762013-03-14T08:14:00.000-07:002013-03-14T08:14:35.041-07:00Power Through Prayer (4) ... Talking to God for Men<span id="internal-source-marker_0.0036470254867694285" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirit Savvy Network</span><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.spiritsavvy.net</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in Power through Prayer.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 4, Talking to God for men:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>There
are two extreme tendencies in the ministry.</b> The <b>one is to shut itself
out from intercourse with the people</b>. The monk, the hermit were
illustrations of this; they shut themselves out from men to be more with
God. <b>We shut ourselves to our study, we become students, bookworms,
Bible worms, sermon makers, noted for literature, thought, and sermons;
but the people and God, where are they? Out of heart, out of mind</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
other tendency is to thoroughly popularize the ministry.</b> He is no
longer God’s man, but a man of affairs, of the people. He prays not,
because his mission is to the people.<b> If he can move the people, create
an interest, a sensation in favor of religion, an interest in Church
work—he is satisfied. His personal relation to God is no factor in his
work. Prayer has little or no place in his plans</b>. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>It
is impossible</b> for the preacher, speaker, teacher, disciple-er<b> to keep his
spirit in harmony with the divine nature of his high calling without
much prayer</b>. <b>Even sermon-making, speaking, writing</b>, incessant and taxing
as an art, as a duty, as a work, or as a pleasure, will engross and
harden, <b>will estrange the heart, by neglect of prayer, from God</b>. The
scientist loses God in nature. The speaker may lose God in his message.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer
freshens the heart, keeps it in tune with God and in sympathy with the
people</b>, lifts a person’s ministry out of the chilly air of a profession,
fructifies routine and moves every wheel with the facility and power of
a divine unction.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer
that affects one’s ministry must give tone to one’s life</b>. The praying
which gives color and bent to character is no pleasant, hurried pastime.
It must enter as strongly into the heart and life as Christ’s “strong
crying and tears” did; must draw out the soul into an agony of desire as
Paul’s did; must <b>be an inwrought fire and force like the “effectual,
fervent prayer” of James; must be of that quality </b>which, when put into
the golden censer and incensed before God, <b>works mighty spiritual throes
and revolutions</b>. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>It
engages more of time and appetite than our longest dinings or richest
feasts</b>. The prayer that makes much of our speaking/sharing must be made
much of. <b>The character of our praying will determine the character of
our presentation.</b> Light praying will make light preaching. <b>Prayer makes
speaking strong, gives it unction, and makes it stick</b>. In every ministry
weighty for good,<b> prayer has always been a serious business</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Believers
must be preeminently a person of prayer</b>. His heart must graduate in the
school of prayer. In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to
speak. <b>No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness,
no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.</b> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>He
will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not
learned well how to talk to God for men</b>. Speaking without prayer can
make our words dead. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Talking to God for men:</span><br /><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.IV.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.IV.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
<br />
<br />Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-74385738724032339162013-03-13T08:43:00.000-07:002013-03-13T08:57:04.649-07:00Power Through Prayer (3) ... The Letter Kills<span id="internal-source-marker_0.8767351388383151" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.spiritsavvy.net</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power through Prayer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by
E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is being highly
recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds has been a
major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are summaries of
the chapters in Power through Prayer.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Through Prayer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chapter 3, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Letter Kills</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
preaching that kills may be, and often is, orthodox—dogmatically,
inviolably orthodox</b>. <b>Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy, too dead to
speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(The
word<b> “preaching”</b> here applies to anyone who shares the message of
Christ to anyone...whether as a<b> speaker, teacher, or</b> any <b>believer</b>.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The preaching/speaking that kills may have insight and grasp of principles,</b> may be scholarly and critical in taste.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Letter-preaching
may <b>be eloquent, enameled with poetry and rhetoric, sprinkled with
prayer spiced with sensation, illumined by genius</b>. Under such preaching
how wide and utter the desolation! <b>how profound the spiritual death!</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>This
letter-preaching deals with the surface and shadow of things</b>, and not
the things themselves. It does not penetrate the inner part. It has <b>no
deep insight into, no strong grasp of, the hidden life of God’s Word.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
failure is in the preacher</b>. <b>God has not made him.</b> He has never been in
the hands of God like clay in the hands of the potter. <b>He has been busy
about the sermon, its thought and finish, its drawing and impressive
forces; but the deep things of God have never been sought, studied,
fathomed, experienced by him.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
city of our God becomes the city of the dead</b>; the Church a graveyard,
not an embattled army. Praise and prayer are stifled; worship is dead.
<b>The preacher and the preaching have helped sin, not holiness; peopled
hell, not heaven. </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Preaching
which kills is prayerless preaching</b>. Without prayer the preacher
creates death, and not life. <b>The preacher who is feeble in prayer is
feeble in life-giving forces.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
deader they are the longer they grow. <b>A plea for short praying, live
praying, real heart praying, praying by the Holy Spirit—direct,
specific, ardent, simple, unctuous in the pulpit—is in order</b>. A <b>school
to teach preachers how to pray, as God counts praying, would be more
beneficial to true piety, true worship, and true preaching than all
theological schools.</b> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Prayer
to God the noblest exercise</b>, the loftiest effort of man, the most real
thing! <b>Shall we not discard forever accursed preaching that kills and
prayer that kills, and do the real thing</b>, the mightiest thing—<b>prayerful
praying, life-creating preaching, bring the mightiest force to bear on
heaven and earth and draw on God’s exhaustless and open treasure for the
need </b>and beggary of man? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on the Letter Kills:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
<br />
<br />Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-43412083810092774752013-03-09T09:15:00.001-08:002013-03-09T09:15:47.197-08:00Power Through Prayer (2) ... Our Sufficiency by God’s Spirit not man's<span id="internal-source-marker_0.3033223977711794" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirit Savvy Network</span><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.spiritsavvy.net</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Power
through Prayer</i> by E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is
being highly recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds
has been a major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are
summaries of the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Power Through Prayer</i></b>, chapter 2, <b>Our Sufficiency, God’s Spirit not man’s spirit</b>..</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>"The
speaker holds the keys... When properly executed, its benefits are
untold</b>; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul
says: “<b>Our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers
of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter kills, but the spirit gives life</b>.” The <b>true ministry is
God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made</b>. The Spirit of God is on the
speaker in anointing power. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
life-giving speaker is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for
God, whose soul is ever following hard after God</b>, whose eye is single to
God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit <b>the flesh and the world
have been crucified</b> and his ministry is like the generous flood of a
life-giving river. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
preaching that kills is non-spiritual preaching</b>. The ability of the
preaching is not from God. Lower sources than God have given to it
energy and stimulant. The Spirit is not evident in the preacher nor his
preaching. <b>Many kinds of forces may be projected and stimulated by
preaching that kills, but they are not spiritual forces. They may
resemble spiritual forces, but are only the shadow, the counterfeit</b>;
life they may seem to have. The <b>preaching that kills</b> is the letter;
shapely and orderly it may be, but it is the letter still,<b> the dry,
husky letter, the empty, bald shell.</b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Truth
unquickened by God’s Spirit deadens as much as, or more than, error.</b> It
may be the truth without admixture; but <b>without the Spirit its shade
and touch are deadly</b>, its truth error, its light darkness.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There
may be no discount on his orthodoxy, honesty, cleanness, or
earnestness; but somehow the man,<b> the inner man, in its secret places
has never broken down and surrendered to God, his inner life is not a
great highway for the transmission of God’s message, God’s power.</b>
Somehow self and not God rules in the holy of holiest. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere,
all unconscious to himself, some spiritual nonconductor has touched his
inner being, and <b>the divine current has been arrested. His inner being
has never felt its thorough spiritual bankruptcy, its utter
powerlessness; he has never learned to cry out with an ineffable cry of
self-despair and self-helplessness till God’s power and God’s fire comes
in and fills, purifies, empowers. </b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-esteem,
<b> self-ability in some pernicious shape has defamed and violated the
temple which should be held sacred for God</b>. <br /><br /><b>Life-giving speaking costs
the presenter much—death to self, crucifixion to the world, the travail
of his own soul. </b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Only a Crucified messenger can give life</b>. <b>Crucified speaking can come only from a crucified man</b>.” </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Our Sufficiency:</span><br /><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.II.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.II.html</span></a><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xvi.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on
Christian Growth, by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been
passed down through the ages.</span><br />
<br />
<br />Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-75290586705587102272013-03-07T13:48:00.000-08:002013-03-07T13:48:39.834-08:00Power Through Prayer (1) ... Men of Prayer Needed<span id="internal-source-marker_0.6051537497668167" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirit Savvy Network</span><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.spiritsavvy.net</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Power
through Prayer</i> by E. M. Bounds is becoming a book on prayer that is
being highly recommended. Many great people of faith have said Bounds
has been a major influence in having a dedicated prayer life. Here are
summaries of the chapters in <i>Power through Prayer</i>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Power Through Prayer</i></b>, chapter 1, <b>Men of Prayer Needed</b>:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>"We
are constantly on a stretch,</b> if not on a strain,<b> to devise new methods,
new plans</b>, new organizations to advance the Church and secure
enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a
tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or
organization. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men</b>.
When God declares that “the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout
the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward him,” <b>he declares the necessity of men and his
dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon
the world</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>What
the Church needs to-day</b> is not more machinery or better, not new
organizations or more and novel methods, but <b>men whom the Holy Ghost can
use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer</b>. The <b>Holy Ghost does not flow
through methods, but through men</b>. He does not come on machinery, but on
men. He does not anoint plans, but men—<b>men of prayer</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>God must make the man. The messenger</b> is, if possible, <b>more than the message</b>. The preacher is more than the sermon.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Preaching
is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.<b> It
takes twenty years to make a sermon, because it takes twenty years to
make the man</b>. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows
because the man grows. <b>The sermon is forceful because the man is
forceful.</b> The sermon is holy because the man is holy. The sermon is <b>full
of the divine unction because the man is full of the divine unction</b>. <br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />(Bounds
refers to the “preacher” frequently in this chapter, although the
thought relates to all the messengers of the Gospel to their fellow
man.)</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b> sermon cannot rise in its life-giving forces above the man</b>. Dead men
give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill. <b>Everything depends on the
spiritual character of the preacher</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no
self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
constraining power of love must be in the messenger as a projecting,
eccentric, an all-commanding, self-oblivious force</b>. The energy of
self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go
forth as a man among men, <b>clothed with humility, abiding in meekness,
wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the
spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, in dependent bearing, with the
simplicity and sweetness of a child</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
preacher (messenger) <b>must throw himself, with all the abandon of a
perfect, self-emptying faith and a self-consuming zeal, into his work
for the salvation of men</b>. <b>Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless
martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God</b>.
If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men <b>pleasers
or men fearers</b>, if their faith has a weak hold on God or his Word, if
their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they<b> cannot
take hold of the Church nor the world for God. </b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of
Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but <b>men makers and saint
makers</b>, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made
himself a man and a saint. <b>It is not great talents nor great learning
nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in
faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God—men always
preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it</b>. These
can mold a generation for God. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Men</b>
they were of solid mold, preachers <b>after the heavenly type—heroic,
stalwart, soldierly, saintly</b>. Preaching with them meant self-denying,
self-crucifying, serious, toilsome, martyr business. They applied
themselves to it in a way that told on their generation, and formed in
its womb a generation yet unborn for God. The preaching man(messenger of
God) is <b>to be the praying man.</b> <b><br /><br />Prayer is the messenger’s mightiest
weapon. An almighty force in itself, it gives life and force to all.</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" />The
<b> real power of the message is made in the closet. The man—God’s man—is
made in the closet.</b> His life and his profoundest convictions were born
in his secret communion with God. The <b>burdened and tearful agony of his
spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with
God. Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the
pastor</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /><b>The
pulpit of this day and venues for the Gospel are weak in praying.</b> The
pride of learning is against the <b>dependent humility of prayer</b>. Prayer is
with the pulpit too often only official—a performance for the routine
of service. Prayer is <b>not to our meetings the mighty force it was in
Paul’s life </b>or Paul’s ministry. <b>Every messenger who does not make prayer
a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in
God’s work and is powerless to project God’s cause in this world.</b>" </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Men of Prayer Needed::</span><br /><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.I_1.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/power.I_1.html</span></a><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xvi.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on Christian Growth,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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<br />Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-15149243821952822562013-03-05T09:19:00.000-08:002013-03-05T09:20:09.372-08:00Secret of the Master’s Indwelling (13) ... That God be All in All<span id="internal-source-marker_0.18726996070668678" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret of the Master's Indwelling</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
is about digging our roots deep into God’s soil that bears fruit
abundantly and gives us strength Supernaturally. Andrew Murray shows
what we must do and be to become stalwarts of Faith. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Secret of the Master’s Indwelling</b></span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Chapter 13, <b>That God be All in All</b>:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There
will come a day—the glory is such we can form no conception of it, the
mystery is so deep we cannot realize it, when the Son shall deliver up
the Kingdom that the Father gave Him. The Son Himself shall be subject
also unto the Father, “<b>that God may be all in all</b>.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>It
shall then be made manifest, as never before, that God is all in all</b>.
It is this that Christ has been working for; it is this that He is
working for to-day in us.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>What
a life ours could be if that were really our banner! To serve God
fully, wholly, only, to have Him all in all!</b> How it would ennoble, and
enlarge, and stimulate our whole being! I am working, I am fighting,
“that God may be all in all;” that the day of glory may be hastened.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Would
that we Christians realized in connection with what a grand cause we
are working and praying</b>; that we had some conception of what a Kingdom
we are partakers of, and what a manifestation of God we are preparing
for.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How
we should be borne along in this blessed faith! <b>I am living for this:
that Christ may have the Kingdom to deliver to the Father. I am living
for this, and I will one day see Him made subject to the Father, and
then God all in all.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>That
it may rule in our lives—this one thought, this one faith, this one
aim, this one joy</b>: Christ lived, and in His power I reign; only for this
one thing, <b>“that God may be all in all.”</b> <b>Let it possess our whole
heart, and life. How can we do this? And I say, first of all: Allow God
to take His place in your heart and life.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“God
first, and I second;” God is all, and I am nothing. Paul said, “I
labored more abundantly than they all;<b> though I be nothing.” Let us try
to give God His place—begin in our closet, in our worship, in our
prayer.</b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Be
quiet, and trusting, and resting, and the everlasting God will shine
into your heart, and will reveal Himself.</b> God will take His place as God
in the presence of His child, so that absolutely and actually the chief
thing in the child’s heart shall be: “God is here, God makes Himself
known.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
must not only allow Him to take His place, but <b>secondly, I must accept
His will in everything</b>. I must accept His will in every providence.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Whatever
the trouble, or temptation, or vexation, or worry, that comes, I must
see God in it, and accept it as God’s will to me</b>. Trouble of any sort
that comes to me is God’s will for me. <b>There is never a trial that comes
to us but it is God’s will for us, and if we learn to see God in it,
then we bid it welcome</b>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will
you not learn to say from to-day, “Welcome every trial, for it comes
from God?” If you want God to be all in all, you must see and meet God
in every providence. Oh, learn to accept God’s will in everything! <b>Come
learn to say of every trial, without exception, “It is my Father who
sent it. I accept it as His messenger,” and nothing in earth or hell can
separate you from God</b>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Thirdly,
Trust in His power</b>. You complain of <b>weakness, of feebleness, of
emptiness. Never mind; that is what you are made for—to be an emptied
vessel, in which God can put His fullness and His strength. </b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
almighty power of God is working in me. <b>I only need to get down, and be
quiet; I need to be more submissive, and surrendered to His will; I
need to be more trustful, and to allow God to do with me what He will.”</b>
Give God His way with you, and let God work, and He will work mightily.
The deepest quietness has often been proved to be the inspiration for
the highest action.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Fourthly: If God is to be all in all, sacrifice everything for His kingdom and glory</b>. “That God may be all in all.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That
life is only worth living as it is given to God to fill.” <b>Do let us
sacrifice everything for His kingdom and glory</b>. Begin to live day by day
with the prayer, “My God, I am given up to You. Be my all in
all.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Let
the Holy Spirit dwell in you; let the Holy Spirit burn in you as a
fire, and burn in you with unutterable groanings, crying unto God,
Himself to reveal His presence and His will in you</b>.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christians,
<b>sacrifice</b> your<b> time</b>; sacrifice your <b>interests</b>; sacrifice your heart’s
best powers in praying, and desiring, and crying that “God may be all in
all.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>And
lastly: if God is to be all in all, wait continually on Him all the
day</b>. Wait continually on God all the day. If you are to do that, <b>you
must live always in His presence</b>. That is what we have been redeemed
for.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“<b>One
thing have I desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after; that I
may dwell all my days in the house of the Lord; to behold the beauty of
the Lord, and to inquire in His temple</b>.” “In the secret of His pavilion
He hideth me.” God Himself will take you up, and will keep you there, so
that all your work shall be done in God. <br /><br />Beloved, <b>wait continually upon
God</b>. You cannot do this unless you are in His presence. <b>You must live
in His presence. Then the blessed habit of waiting upon God will be
learned.</b> The real difficulty of getting to the point of real waiting
upon God, is because <b>most Christians have not sought to realize the
nearness of God, and to give God the first place</b>.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“<b>May
my life be to live and die, to labor and to pray continually for this
one thing</b>: that in me, and around me, and in the church; that throughout
the world ’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>God may be all in all</b>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">’”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on That God be All in All.:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xvi.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xvi.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on Christian Growth,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the best of the Saints of Old whose works have been passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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<br />Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-68673011564014583382013-03-03T13:16:00.001-08:002013-03-03T13:16:26.777-08:00Secret of the Master’s Indwelling (12) ... Source of Power in Prayer<span id="internal-source-marker_0.16687651209677956" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.spiritsavvy.net</span></a><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret of the Master's Indwelling</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
is about digging our roots deep into God’s soil that bears fruit
abundantly and gives us strength Supernaturally. Andrew Murray shows
what we must do and be to become stalwarts of Faith. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret of the Master’s Indwelling</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Chapter 12, Source of Power in Prayer:</span><br />
<b><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>“Powerful
prayer! </b>The confession of ignorance! <b>When we are called upon we can
pray, but it gets far too easy,</b> and I am afraid we think we are praying
often <b>when there is little real prayer</b>. We must<b> begin by feeling, “I
cannot pray.” </b>When a man breaks down and cannot pray, and there is a
fire burning in his heart, and a burden resting upon him, there is
something drawing him to God. <b>“I know not what to pray,”—oh, blessed
ignorance! </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And
again he tells us that we ourselves often do not know what the Spirit
is doing within us, but there is one, God, who searches the hearts. <b>
Words often reveal my thought and my wishes, but not what is deep in my
heart, and God comes and searches my heart, and deep down, hidden, what I
cannot see and what was to me an unutterable longing, God finds. </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul
says, “<b>No man knows the things of God but the Spirit of God</b>.” Pray new
prayers, rise higher into the riches of God. You must begin to feel your
ignorance. <b>When I see a man who cannot pray glibly and smoothly and
readily, I say that is a mark of the Holy Spirit. When he begins in his
prayers to say, “Oh, God, I want more,</b> I want to be led deeper in. I
have prayed to feel the burden of the lost in a new way,” it is an
indication of the presence of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, beloved, if
you will <b>take time and let God lay the burden of those of the world
heavier upon you</b> until you begin to feel, “I have never prayed,” </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b> Holy Spirit could pray a hundred fold more in us</b> if we were only
conscious of our ignorance, because <b>we would then feel our dependence
upon Him</b>. May God<b> teach us our ignorance</b> in prayer and <b>our impotence</b>,
and may God bring us to say, “Lord, we cannot pray; <b>we do not know what
prayer is.</b>” But oh, it is only a little beginning compared to what the
Holy Spirit of God teaches.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There
is the<b> first</b> thought: our ignorance. “<b>We know not what we should pray
for as we ought</b>;” but “the <b>Spirit itself makes intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered</b>.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I
cannot limit the holy one of Israel by my thoughts;<b> I give myself up in
the faith that the Holy Spirit can be praying for me with groanings,
with longings, that cannot be expressed.” Apply that to your prayers. </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There
are different <b>phases of prayer</b>. There is <b>worship</b>, when a man just bows
down to adore the great God. <b>We do not take time to worship. We need to
worship in secret</b>, just to get ourselves face to face with the
everlasting God, that He may overshadow us and cover us and fill us with
His love and His glory. <b>It is the Holy Spirit that can work in us such a
yearning that we will give up our pleasures and even part of our
business,</b> that we may the oftener meet our God.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b>next phase</b> of prayer is <b>fellowship</b>. In prayer there is not only the
worship of a<b> king, but fellowship as of a child with God. Christians
take far too little time in fellowship. They think prayer is just coming
with their petitions.</b> If Christ is to make me what I am to be, <b>I must
tarry in fellowship with God.</b></span><b><br /></b><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
<b>blacksmith puts his rod of iron into the fire</b>. If he leaves it there
but a short time it does not become red hot. If he takes time and <b>leaves
the rod ten or fifteen minutes in the fire </b>the whole iron will become
red hot with the heat that is in the fire. <b>So if we are to get the fire
of God’s holiness and love and power we must take more time with God in
fellowship</b>. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another,
and <b>a most important phase of prayer is intercession</b>. If the Spirit
could find men and women who would <b>give up their lives to cry to God,
the Spirit would most surely come</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then
comes the last thought, that God Himself comes to look with complacency
upon the attitude of His child.<b> Christ the almighty high priest
pleading day and night. His whole person is one intercession, and there
goes up from Him without ceasing the pleading to the Father, “Bless thy
church.”</b> Let us open and <b>enlarge our hearts and say to God, “Oh that I
might be a priest, to enter God’s presence continually and to take hold
of God and to bring down a blessing to my perishing fellowmen!”</b> God
longs to find the intercession of Jesus reflected in the hearts of His
children, and where He finds it, it is a delight.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Think of the thousands of nominal Christians—Christians in name, <b>but robbing God! (by not praying for those around them) and can we be happy?</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">God
has spoken to us to ask us if we realize what we are. <b>Let us go to God
and may He by the Holy Spirit fill our hearts with unutterable sorrow
at the state of the our Christian commitment</b>, and may God give us grace
to mourn before Him. And when we begin to confess our sins in our
fellowships, we will begin to feel our own sins as never before.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Power in prayer comes when we come to God in meekness and in our weakness, and plead for the betterment of our fellow man</b>. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on the Source of Power in Prayer:</span><br />
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Dale Shumakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605594378421717613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726884.post-25869664982820709362013-02-27T11:09:00.000-08:002013-02-27T11:09:00.650-08:00Secret of the Master’s Indwelling (11) ... Triumph of Faith<span id="internal-source-marker_0.6645357626057302" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Dale Shumaker</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirit Savvy Network</span><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.spiritsavvy.net</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.spiritsavvy.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret of the Master's Indwelling</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
is about digging our roots deep into God’s soil that bears fruit
abundantly and gives us strength Supernaturally. Andrew Murray shows
what we must do and be to become stalwarts of Faith. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Secret of the Master’s Indwelling</i></b>, Chapter 11, <b>Triumph of Faith</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Let
me point out to you the <b>three aspects of faith</b> which we have here:
first, faith <b>seeking</b>; then, faith <b>finding</b>; and then, faith <b>enjoying</b>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or,
<b>still better: <br />faith struggling; <br />faith resting; <br />faith triumphing. </b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>First of all, faith struggling</b>. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here
is a man, a heathen, a nobleman, who has heard about Christ. He has a
dying son at Capernaum. He has heard of His other miracles round
Capernaum, and <b>he has a certain trust that Jesus will be able to help
him</b>. He goes to Him, and his prayer is that the Lord will come down to
Capernaum and heal his son.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>He
had at first a faith that was seeking, and struggling, and searching
for blessing; then he had a faith that accepted the blessing simply as
it was contained in the word of Jesus.</b> When Christ said, “Thy son
liveth,” he was content, and went home, and found the blessing—the son
restored. Then came the third step in his faith. <b>He believed with his
whole house</b>. That is to say, he did not only believe that Christ could
do just this one thing, the healing of his son; but he believed in
Christ as his Lord. He gave himself up entirely to be a disciple of
Jesus.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The
struggling and wrestling and seeking are the beginnings of faith in
you—a faith that desires and hopes. But it must go on further</b>. And how
can that faith advance? Look at the second step. There is the nobleman,
and Christ speaks to him this wonderful word: “Go your way; your son
liveth;” and the nobleman simply rests upon that word of the living
Jesus. <b>He rests on it, and without any proof of what he is to get, and
without one man in the world to encourage him.</b> He goes away home <b>with
the thought, “I have received the blessing</b>, I have got life from the
dead for my son. <b>The living Christ promised it me, and on that I rest</b>.”
<b>The struggling, seeking faith has become a resting faith.</b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>You
can have a living Christ within you</b>. <b>And are you going to believe that,
apart from any experience, and apart from any consciousness of
strength?</b> If the peace of God is to rule in your heart, it is the God of
peace Himself must be there to do it. The peace is inseparable from the
God.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Lo,
I am with you alway.” “I live, and you shall live also.” “I wait to
take charge of your whole life. Will you have me do this? <b>Trust to me
all that is evil and feeble; your whole sinful and perverse nature—give
it up to Me; that dying, sin-sick soul—give it up to Me, and I will take
care of it.”</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will
you not, like the nobleman, take the simple step of faith, and believe
the word Jesus hath spoken? Will you not say, “Lord Jesus, you have
spoken: <b>I can rest on your Word. I have seen that Christ is willing to
be more to me than I ever knew</b>; I have seen that Christ is willing to be
my life in the most actual and intense meaning of the words.”<b><br /><br />The
faith that rests in Jesus, is the faith that trusts all to Him, with
all we have</b>. Do we not read that when God had finished His work, and
rested, it was only to begin new work? Yes; the great work was to be
carried on—watching over and ruling His world and His church. And is it
not so with the Lord Jesus? <b>When He had finished His work. The Holy
Spirit is carrying on that blessed work, teaching us to rest in Christ,
and in the strength of that rest to go on, and to cover our whole life
with the power, and the obedience, and the will, and the likeness of the
Lord Jesus</b>.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Lastly,
comes the triumphant faith</b>. The man went home holding fast the promise.
He had only one promise, but he held it fast. <b>When God gives me a
promise, He is just as near me as when He fulfills it.</b> That is a great
comfort. When I have the promise I have also the pledge of the
fulfillment. But the whole heart of God is in His promise, just as much
as in the fulfillment of it, and sometimes God,<b> the promiser, is more
precious because I am compelled to cling more to Him, and to come
closer, and to live by simple faith, and to adore His love</b>. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One
thought more,—<b>he believed with his whole house. That was triumphant
faith</b>. And if you want power in your own house, come into contact with
Jesus in this rest of<b> faith that accepts His life fully, that trusts Him
fully, and the power will come by faith to overcome the world; by faith
to bless others; by faith to live a life to the glory of God. </b></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Lo,
I am with you alway.” Go your way, with the heart open to welcome Him,
and the heart believing He has come in. <b>Surely we have not prayed in
vain</b>. Christ has listened to the yearnings of our hearts and has entered
in. “Go your way, your soul liveth;” and ever saying,<b> “I have trusted
Christ to reveal His abundant life in my soul; by His grace I will wait
upon Him to fulfill His promise.”</b> Amen. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The complete chapter on Triumph of Faith:</span><br /><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xiv.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xiv.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Christian Classics Ethereal Library and many great classic works on Christian Growth,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the best of the Saints of Old who’s works have been passed down through the ages.</span><br />
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