“For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” – 1 Corinthians 3:9 Our prayers are to be as earnest and persistent as was the petition of the needy friend who asked for the loaves at midnight. The more earnestly...
“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments.” – John 14:13-15 There are conditions to the fulfillment of God’s...
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into...
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” – Matthew 21:22 In the feeding of the multitude and in the sermon on the bread from heaven, Christ had opened to [the disciples] their work as His representatives. They were to give the...
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” – 1 John 5:14-15 Christ was continually...
“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.” – Jeremiah 30:7 Jacob and Esau represent two classes; Jacob the righteous, and Esau the wicked. Jacob’s distress when he...
