PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Assembly of God. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. III
Mackintosh, Charles Henry, 1820-1896 · 125,713 words · 192 reading sections
PRAYER AND THE PRAYER-MEETING
In considering the deeply important subject of prayer, two things claim our attention; first, the moral basis of prayer; secondly, its moral conditions. I. The basis of prayer is set forth in such words as the following: "_If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you_, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done u…
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We write plainly, because we feel the need of great plainness of speech. We deeply feel our want of reality, sincerity, and truth in our prayers and prayer-meetings. Not unfrequently it happens that what we call prayer is not prayer at all, but the fluent utterance of certain known and acknowledged truths and principle…
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We shall now proceed to consider, in the light of holy Scripture, the moral conditions or attributes of prayer. There is nothing like having the authority of the divine Word for every thing in the entire range of our practical Christian life. Scripture must be our one grand and conclusive referee in all our questions. …
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All this seems very plausible; and the more so because there is a measure of truth in it; indeed it is all true, so far as it goes: but it is only one side of the truth. It is truth, and nothing but the truth; but it is not _the whole truth_. Hence its mischievous tendency. There is nothing more to be dreaded than one-…
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If we turn to Matthew xxi. 22, we shall find another of the essential conditions of effectual prayer. "And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, _believing_, ye shall receive." This is a truly marvelous statement. It opens the very treasury of heaven to faith. There is absolutely no limit. Our blessed Lord assu…
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What, then, do we learn from Luke xi? what are the moral conditions which it sets before us? In the first place, it teaches us to be _definite_ in our prayers. "Friend, lend me three loaves." There is a positive need felt and expressed; there is the one thing before the mind and on the heart, and to this one thing he c…
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The simple fact is, we are too vague and, as a consequence, too indifferent in our prayers and prayer-meetings. We do not seem like people _asking for what they want, and waiting for what they ask_. This is what destroys our prayer-meetings, rendering them pithless, pointless, powerless; turning them into teaching or t…
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The more deeply we ponder the subject which has been for some time engaging our attention, and the more we consider the state of the entire Church of God, the more convinced we are of the urgent need of a thorough awakening every where in reference to the question of prayer. We cannot--nor do we desire to--shut our eye…
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Here, then, we have pressed upon our attention the important moral condition of _perseverance_. "Men ought _always_ to pray, and _not to faint_." This is intimately connected with the definiteness and importunity to which we have already referred. We want a certain thing; we cannot do without it. We importunately, unit…
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Brethren, beloved in the Lord, let us rouse ourselves to the solemn consideration of these weighty matters. Let us not be satisfied to go on with the present condition of things. We call upon all those who admit the truth of what we have been putting forth in these pages on "Prayer and the Prayer-Meeting," to unite in …
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NOTE.--It may perhaps be useful to notice that in the foregoing most needful pages, the beloved author has been speaking of the _prayer-meeting_, and the moral basis and conditions of prayer in general, not of personal, secret prayer. The importance of it can hardly be overestimated. The lack or neglect of this soon te…
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[XXX.] How interesting to find "Mary the mother of Jesus" named here, as being at the prayer-meeting! What would she have said if any one had told her that millions of professing Christians would yet be praying to her? * * * * * Transcriber Notes: Common puctuation errors repaired obvious typ…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.