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Contents

Foreword by Dr. Michael D. Miller 13

Week 1 / Monday / Infinite Fullness 15

Week 1 / Tuesday / Resolved to Do His Will 16

Week 1 / Wednesday / Self-Examination and the Love of God 17

Week 1 / Thursday / Hoping in God Alone 18

Week 1 / Friday / The Mountain Is Still Open 19

Week 1 / Weekend / Faith to Grasp His Faithfulness 20

Week 2 / Monday / Come Helpless 21

Week 2 / Tuesday /Acknowledging Sin 22Week 2 / Wednesday /Always in the Presence 23

Week 2 / Thursday /Above the Storms and Clouds 24

Week 2 / Friday / Definite Prayers, Definite Answers 25

Week 2 / Weekend / Wrapped Up in Divine Love 26

Week 3 / Monday / Spirit and Truth 27

Week 3 / Tuesday / On Praying Ground 28

Week 3 / Wednesday / Responding to the Shepherd 29

Week 3 / Thursday / He Prays for Us 30

Week 3 / Friday /An Encounter of Wills 31

Week 3 / Weekend / Proofs of His Love 32

Week 4 / Monday / Begin with God 33

Week 4 / Tuesday / Joining with the Brokenhearted Father 34

Week 4 / Wednesday / Quiet Confidence 35

Week 4 / Thursday / Before the Throne 36

Week 4 / Friday /Asking Is Easy 37

Week 4 / Weekend / First, Forgive 38

Week 5 / Monday / When We Pray 39

Week 5 / Tuesday / Search Me, O God 40

Week

5 / Wednesday

/A Childs Right 41Week 5 / Thursday / The Work of the Spirit 42

Week 5 / Friday / Be Real with God 43

Week 5 / Weekend /Audience with God 44

Week 6 / Monday / Feeding on His Presence 45

Week 6 / Tuesday / Prayers Rising from Grief 46

Week 6 / Wednesday / His Holiness 47

Week 6 / Thursday /A Heart Reaching Out to God 48

Week 6 / Friday / Constant Supplication 49

Week 6 / Weekend /A Prayer Warrior at Work 50

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Week 7 / Monday / The Stages of Prayer 51

Week 7 / Tuesday / Praying in Perfect Confidence 52

Week 7 / Wednesday / Blessed Be His Name at All Times 53

Week 7 / Thursday / In His Name 54Week 7 / Friday / The Possibilities of Prayer 55

Week 7 / Weekend / Pray, Then Do 56

Week 8 / Monday / Truly Knowing God 57

Week 8 / Tuesday / The Work of Prayer 58

Week 8 / Wednesday / Praise with Prayer 59

Week 8 / Thursday /All the Heaven I Want 60

Week 8 / Friday /Abandoned to God 61

Week 8 / Weekend / The Father of Faith 62

Week 9 / Monday / The Life of Prayer 63

Week 9 / Tuesday / The Need for Sincerity 64

Week 9 / Wednesday / Finding the Heart of God in Prayer 65

Week 9 / Thursday / The Height of Prayer 66

Week 9 / Friday / Faiths Answers 67

Week 9 / Weekend / Prayer and Gods Mercy 68

Week 10 / Monday / Standing Firm by Prayer 69

Week 10 / Tuesday / Save Us from Self 70

Week 10 / Wednesday / The True Life of Faith 71

Week 10 / Thursday / Drawing Near 72

Week 10 / Friday /Prayer Is Not Easy 73

Week 10 / Weekend / Worship the Living God 74

Week 11 / Monday / That His Name May Be Glorified 75

Week 11 / Tuesday / Prayer Is Obedience 76

Week 11 / Wednesday / Pray with the Heart 77

Week 11 / Thursday / Eternal Prayers 78

Week 11 / Friday / Beholding Jesus 79

Week 11 / Weekend / The Finished Work 80

Week 12 / Monday / Gods Presence 81

Week 12 / Tuesday / Growing Your Faith 82

Week 12 / Wednesday / Something Else in Store 83

Week 12 / Thursday / God Our Guide 84

Week 12 / Friday / Gods Power at Work 85

Week 12 / Weekend / Bread from Heaven 86

Week 13 / Monday / May His Name Be Holy 87

Week 13 / Tuesday / Prayers Shaping Power 88

Week 13 / Wednesday / The Discipline and Power of Prayer 89

Week 13 / Thursday / Safe and Secure in Christ 90

Week 13 / Friday / Effective Prayer 91

Week 13 / Weekend / Lifted Above the World 92



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Week 14 / Monday / Persevering in Prayer 93

Week 14 / Tuesday / Following One Master 94

Week 14 / Wednesday / Rest in His Presence 95

Week 14 / Thursday / Lifting Up Your Soul 96Week 14 / Friday / Gods Providence 97

Week 14 / Weekend / Speaking to Him 98

Week 15 / Monday / Glory to God 99

Week 15 / Tuesday / The Torrent of His Graces 100

Week 15 / Wednesday / Thanking God for His Work Among Christians 101

Week 15 / Thursday / The Compassion of Christ 102

Week 15 / Friday / Laboring in Prayer 103

Week 15 / Weekend / Casting Burdens on Him 104

Week 16 / Monday / Let Christ Reign in Prayer 105

Week 16 / Tuesday / Humility in Prayer 106

Week 16 / Wednesday / Tried by God 107

Week 16 / Thursday / Right Prayer 108

Week 16 / Friday / The Essential Work 109

Week 16 / Weekend / Work Less, Pray More 110

Week 17 / Monday / Lingering in Prayer 111

Week 17 / Tuesday / Prayer Changes Us 112

Week 17 / Wednesday / When You Yourself Are a Prayer 113

Week 17 / Thursday / Passing Strangers 114

Week 17 / Friday /The Creative Power of Prayer 115

Week 17 / Weekend / The Lord Has Heard Me 116

Week 18 / Monday / Personal Prayer 117

Week 18 / Tuesday / Prayer and Forgiveness 118

Week 18 / Wednesday / The Speaking Book 119

Week 18 / Thursday /A Twofold Intercession 120

Week 18 / Friday / Greater Works Through Prayer 121

Week 18 / Weekend / Take His Hand 122

Week 19 / Monday / Giving Yourself to Jesus 123

Week 19 / Tuesday / True Joy 124

Week 19 / Wednesday / Listening in Silence 125

Week 19 / Thursday / Prayer and Gods Purposes 126

Week 19 / Friday / The Sure Promises 127

Week 19 / Weekend / Heaven on Earth 128

Week 20 / Monday / Walking in the Vision 129

Week 20 / Tuesday / His Glory, Not Our Perfectionism 130

Week 20 / Wednesday / Christs Glory 131

Week 20 / Thursday /Attuned to God 132

Week 20 / Friday / He Is Sufficient 133

Week 20 / Weekend / The Reward of Patient Prayer 134



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Week 21 / Monday / Being a Blessing 135

Week 21 / Tuesday / Vertical and Horizontal 136

Week 21 / Wednesday / The Royal Power of the Child of God 137

Week 21 / Thursday / Prayer and Healing 138Week 21 / Friday / He Is the One 139

Week 21 / Weekend / No Good Thing Withheld 140

Week 22 / Monday / Faith to Pray 141

Week 22 / Tuesday / Mastery by Prayer 142

Week 22 / Wednesday / Our Great God 143

Week 22 / Thursday / The Lord Our Shepherd 144

Week 22 / Friday / Gods Cause in Prayer 145

Week 22 / Weekend / Learning to Know Him 146

Week 23 / Monday / In the Grip of the Peace of God 147

Week 23 / Tuesday / Pray with Understanding 148

Week 23 / Wednesday / Give Him Praise 149

Week 23 / Thursday / Learning to Pray 150

Week 23 / Friday / Praying Again 151

Week 23 / Weekend / Reconcile First 152

Week 24 / Monday / United with Christ 153

Week 24 / Tuesday / Christlike Prayer 154

Week 24 / Wednesday / Put Sin Away 155

Week 24 / Thursday / Think and Pray According to the Word 156

Week 24 / Friday /Overcoming by Faith 157

Week 24 / Weekend / One Step at a Time 158

Week 25 / Monday / Hungering for God 159

Week 25 / Tuesday / The Cost of Prayer 160

Week 25 / Wednesday / Gods Encore 161

Week 25 / Thursday / How Long? 162

Week 25 / Friday /All Through the Spirit 163

Week 25 / Weekend / Wrestling in Prayer 164

Week 26 / Monday / The Love of Christ 165

Week 26 / Tuesday / Difficulties of Prayer 166

Week 26 / Wednesday /Ask in His Name 167

Week 26 / Thursday / Revel in the Love of God 168

Week 26 / Friday / Following Christ Daily 169

Week 26 / Weekend /Alphabet Prayer 170

Week 27 / Monday / Our Life Trade 171

Week 27 / Tuesday / Praise Opens the Door 172

Week 27 / Wednesday / God Above All 173

Week 27 / Thursday / Love and Virtue 174

Week 27 / Friday / How God Interprets Prayers 175

Week 27 / Weekend / How to Ascertain the Will of God 176



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Week 28 / Monday / Make Requests of God 177

Week 28 / Tuesday / Living as His Child 178

Week 28 / Wednesday / Inexpressible Cries to God 179

Week 28 / Thursday / Willing His Will 180Week 28 / Friday / Turning On the Current 181

Week 28 / Weekend / Dissolved into Christ 182

Week 29 / Monday / Doubt Not 183

Week 29 / Tuesday / The Secret of Life 184

Week 29 / Wednesday / Persevering in Prayer 185

Week 29 / Thursday / Is Not This the Blood? 186

Week 29 / Friday / The Power of Gods Love 187

Week 29 / Weekend / Gods Time Will Come 188

Week 30 / Monday / Prayer Is the Key 189

Week 30 / Tuesday / What Prayer Is 190

Week 30 / Wednesday / He Is Worthy of All 191

Week 30 / Thursday / The Gauge of Grace 192

Week 30 / Friday / Holy Boldness 193

Week 30 / Weekend / Help Must Be at Hand 194

Week 31 / Monday / TheName Above All 195

Week 31 / Tuesday / Cast Yourself on His Mercy 196

Week 31 / Wednesday / Dont Be Ashamed 197

Week 31 / Thursday / Seek Jesus First 198

Week 31 / Friday /Too Hard for God? 199

Week 31 / Weekend /A Soul Stayed upon God 200

Week 32 / Monday / The Secret of Christian Quietness 201

Week 32 / Tuesday / Coming Before the Good King 202

Week 32 / Wednesday / Gods Loan to Us 203

Week 32 / Thursday / Cooperation with God 204

Week 32 / Friday / The Great Need to Make Disciples 205

Week 32 / Weekend / Jorns Lot 206

Week 33 / Monday / The Power of Private Prayer 207

Week 33 / Tuesday / Press On to Know God 208

Week 33 / Wednesday / Genuine Prayer in the Spirit 209

Week 33 / Thursday / Hearing the Voice 210

Week 33 / Friday / You Are Not Condemned 211

Week 33 / Weekend / Give Your Life 212

Week 34 / Monday / They Have Been with Jesus 213

Week 34 / Tuesday / Speaking to Christ Through the Spirit 214

Week 34 / Wednesday / Dont Be Content with Mediocrity 215

Week 34 / Thursday / The Faith to Ask Gods Will 216

Week 34 / Friday / Total Honesty 217

Week 34 / Weekend / Gods Presence on the Wearisome Journey 218



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Week 35 / Monday / The Glory of Redemption 219

Week 35 / Tuesday / Entering the Presence 220

Week 35 / Wednesday / Invest Time in Prayer 221

Week 35 / Thursday / Where Are the Nine? 222Week 35 / Friday / The Debt You Cannot Pay 223

Week 35 / Weekend / On His Knees at Last 224

Week 36 / Monday / Take Your Troubles to God 225

Week 36 / Tuesday / Unforgiveness Leads to Prayerlessness 226

Week 36 / Wednesday / Pray Stretched-out-ed-ly 227

Week 36 / Thursday / Cleansed and Transformed Completely 228

Week 36 / Friday / Prayer at Work in Others 229

Week 36 / Weekend / Faith Must Be Tried 230

Week 37 / Monday / Pray According to Scripture 231

Week 37 / Tuesday / True Fellowship Through Prayer 232

Week 37 / Wednesday / Looking to God in Faith 233

Week 37 / Thursday / Pure Gold 234

Week 37 / Friday / Keep Asking 235

Week 37 / Weekend / Coming to the Cure 236

Week 38 / Monday / Intercession with God 237

Week 38 / Tuesday / Be Thou My Vision 238

Week 38 / Wednesday / Pray Undistractedly 239

Week 38 / Thursday / Prayer and Holiness 240

Week 38 / Friday /Encouragement from the Word 241

Week 38 / Weekend / God in All the Business of Life 242

Week 39 / Monday / Striving in Prayer 243

Week 39 / Tuesday / His Unchanging Love 244

Week 39 / Wednesday / Study to Pray 245

Week 39 / Thursday / Citizens of the Kingdom 246

Week 39 / Friday / Just Ask! 247

Week 39 / Weekend /A Test for Faith 248

Week 40 / Monday / Praying Is Service 249

Week 40 / Tuesday / Beware of Faintness 250

Week 40 / Wednesday / Time to Pray 251

Week 40 / Thursday / Your Circumstances in the Hand of God 252

Week 40 / Friday / God Loves a Man Aflame 253

Week 40 / Weekend / Surrendered to God at the Sea 254

Week 41 / Monday / Teach Me to Pray 255

Week 41 / Tuesday / The Joint Work 256

Week 41 / Wednesday / With Christ 257

Week 41 / Thursday / What We Really Need 258

Week 41 / Friday / Gods Great Desire 259

Week 41 / Weekend / For Christs Sake 260



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Week 42 / Monday / The Age of Complexity 261

Week 42 / Tuesday / Deliver Us from Idols 262

Week 42 / Wednesday /A Holy Watchfulness 263

Week 42 / Thursday / Praying Scripture 264Week 42 / Friday / Pray with Emotion 265

Week 42 / Weekend / Talking with God Too 266

Week 43 / Monday / Promises, Faith, Patience 267

Week 43 / Tuesday /Accepting His Perfect Will 268

Week 43 / Wednesday / Too Dry to Pray 269

Week 43 / Thursday / What God Expects 270

Week 43 / Friday / Faith, Grace, and Prayer 271

Week 43 / Weekend / Pray for Me 272

Week 44 / Monday / Gods Working Through Prayer 273

Week 44 / Tuesday / Samuel Rutherfords Trials 274

Week 44 / Wednesday / Prayer for Humility 275

Week 44 / Thursday / To Value Christ 276

Week 44 / Friday / Priests in His Presence 277

Week 44 / Weekend / Resolved to Pray 278

Week 45 / Monday / The Act of Faith 279

Week 45 / Tuesday / Cooperate with God 280

Week 45 / Wednesday / Drawing Strength from the Scriptures 281

Week 45 / Thursday /At Peace Before Him 282

Week 45 / Friday /Drawn Deep into Prayer 283

Week 45 / Weekend / Weeping for the People 284

Week 46 / Monday / The Law of Prayer 285

Week 46 / Tuesday / Gods Point of View 286

Week 46 / Wednesday / Prayer, Not Independence 287

Week 46 / Thursday /An Opportunity to Trust 288

Week 46 / Friday / No Accusation Can Stand 289

Week 46 / Weekend / Revival in the Home 290

Week 47 / Monday / One with Christ! 291

Week 47 / Tuesday / Into the Presence of God 292

Week 47 / Wednesday / Living Above the World 293

Week 47 / Thursday / Quit Pretending 294

Week 47 / Friday /All My Desire 295

Week 47 / Weekend /Assisted in Prayer 296

Week 48 / Monday /A Sacred Partnership 297

Week 48 / Tuesday / The Hard, Easy Commands 298

Week 48 / Wednesday / Thoughts of Sin and Grace 299

Week 48 / Thursday / Giving Thanks to God 300

Week 48 / Friday / Using Gods Promises 301

Week 48 / Weekend /Alone with Him 302



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Week 49 / Monday / His Infinite Fatherliness 303

Week 49 / Tuesday / Keep Your Mind in His Presence 304

Week 49 / Wednesday / Passion for God 305

Week 49 / Thursday / Want of the Spirit 306Week 49 / Friday / Gods Gifts of Love 307

Week 49 / Weekend / Our Sufficient God 308

Week 50 / Monday / Prayers Place 309

Week 50 / Tuesday / Pray with Earnestness 310

Week 50 / Wednesday / Closer Than a Brother 311

Week 50 / Thursday / Selling Out to God 312

Week 50 / Friday / Bunyans Dying Words on Prayer 313

Week 50 / Weekend / Prayer and Power 314

Week 51 / Monday / The World Was Made for Prayer 315

Week 51 / Tuesday / The Living Lord 316

Week 51 / Wednesday / The Great Physician 317

Week 51 / Thursday / For the Glory of God 318

Week 51 / Friday / Praise First 319

Week 51 / Weekend / Prayer for Every Minute Detail 320

Week 52 / Monday / Led by the Spirit 321

Week 52 / Tuesday / When Jesus Enters 322

Week 52 / Wednesday / I Have Sinned 323

Week 52 / Thursday / Pray in Him, Like Him 324

Week 52 / Friday /Compassion and Prayer 325

Week 52 / Weekend / Present Through Prayer 326

Sources 327

About the Authors 329

Scripture Index 335

Topical Index 343



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Foreword

The collection you hold in your hands is a gathering in one place of some of

the best writing of our time as well as of earlier days on prayer. The

entries have been carefully arranged to address the essential biblical ele-

ments of prayer each week: preparation, confession, examination, worship,

and request. In addition, every weekend entry relates a true story of prayer

in action to inspire your faith. These are stunning and memorable words

that have deeply influenced generations in the movement of discipleship toJesus. The best books are timeless, and most often they cross cultural bar-

riers. Created by dozens of outstanding authors, the selections in this book

have stood the test of time and shown the power to touch a new generation

of disciples in many settings around the world.

Jesus said, Every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the

kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his store-

room new treasures as well as old (Matthew 13:52, ). At NavPress, we

are conscious of both the old and the new, and we treasure both. We live in

a world of profound change in publishing, and NavPress is at the forefront

of keeping up with the new media. But we are also looking to our faiths

heritage for classic writing that never lets us forget where we have come

from and to pass along those timeless messages that have proven to change

lives. Thats the kind of writing you hold in your hands: some of the great-

est selections on the nature of our God.

The ministry of The Navigators began in the 1930s through the call of

God to Dawson Trotman. Trotmans vision was to teach others, one to one,

the biblical principles of discipleship he found beneficial in his own life. He

began to teach high school students and local Sunday school classes. In

1933, he and his friends extended their work to reach out to sailors in the

U.S. Navy. From there, Trotman met and established a partnership with

the then up-and-coming evangelist Billy Graham.

One of the men Trotman chose to lead the work with Billy Graham

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served The Navigators for thirty years as its president. This book contains

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in passionate love and obedience to God. They are tested in real life, and

they have a practical authenticity that prompts genuine transformation.

Over the years, I personally have been touched by all the messages in

this collection. These books on prayer reflect the incredibly vast thinkingand counsel on prayer. Their counsel guides, models, and encourages us in

our experiencing of prayer. Each one is part of the fabric of my own disciple-

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M R, O L P H O

Week 1 / Monday

Infinite Fullness

He is also able to save to the uttermost

those who come to God through Him.

(Hebrews 7:25, nkjv)

We are not of this world, though we are in it. We have been translated out

of the kingdom of darkness, we have been introduced into the kingdom of

Gods dear Son; our title has not to be made out, it has been already secured

to us. The precious blood is our title, and He who shed it has gone withinthe veil to present it, as our Representative. Our meetness and qualification

for heaven and for glory has not to be bestowed, it has been already given.

Our meetness is the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us. The moment the Holy

Ghost enters the soul of a believing sinner, that man is as meet for glory

as if he lived in the school of grace for a thousand years.

Our inheritance is secure, and, Our fellowship is with the Father, and

with his Son Jesus Christ (1 John 1:3, j).

And if we are left here it is because the Lord has need of our emptiness,

our weakness, the variety of our temptations and temperaments, the pecu-

liar character of our corruptions, the disappointments, the dangers and

difficulties with which His poor people are possessed and surrounded, that

it may be made manifest that there never was a case, or a circumstance, or

a sorrow, or a sin, or a difficulty, for which there was not a remedy and a

supply in His fullness and in His love. Our need suits His fullness, and His

fullness corresponds to our need; there must needs be the infinite variety

of cases, and of characters, of temptations, and necessities, which exist

among the children of God, in order that there may be full scope, occasion

and opportunity for displaying the infinite varieties of the fullness, the

love, grace, mercy, and salvation, laid up in the Lord Jesus Christ for His

dear people, and that in their relief and deliverance from all their troubles,

He might win for Himself an everlasting name.



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C F, P H

Week 1 / Tuesday

Resolved to Do His Will

I have come down from heaven,

not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

(John 6: 38)

I fear it is common for professed Christians to overlook the state of mind in

which God requires them to be as a condition of answering their prayers.

For example, in offering the Lords Prayer, Thy kingdom come, it is plain

that sincerity in offering this petition implies the whole heart and life devo-tion of the petitioner to the building up of this kingdom. It implies the

sincere and thorough consecration of all that we have and all that we are to

this end. To utter this petition in any other state of mind involves hypocrisy

and is an abomination. So [it is] in the next petition, Thy will be done on

earth as it is in heaven. God has not promised to hear this petition unless

it is sincerely offered. But sincerityimplies a state of mind that accepts the

whole revealed will of God, so far as we understand it, as they accept it in

heaven. It implies a loving, confiding, universal obedience to the whole

known will of God, whether that will is revealed in His Word, by His Spirit,

or in His Providence. It implies that we hold ourselves and all that we have

and are as absolutely and cordially at Gods disposal as do the inhabitants

of heaven. If we fall short of this and withhold anything whatever from

God, we regard iniquity in our hearts, and God will not hear us.

Sincerity in offering this petition implies a state of entire and universal

consecration to God. Anything short of this is withholding from God that

which is His due. It is turning away our ear from hearing the law. But

what saith the Scriptures? He that turneth away his ear from hearing the

law, even his prayer shall be an abomination. Do professed Christians

understand this?



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J G, A S E M P

Week 1 / Wednesday

Self-Examination and the Love of God

If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one

another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

(1 John 1:7)

Self-examination should always precede Confession. The business of those

that are advanced to the degree of which we now treat, is to lay their whole

souls open before God, who will not fail to enlighten them, and enable

them to see the peculiar nature of their faults. This examination, however,should be peaceful and tranquil, and we should depend on God for the

discovery and knowledge of our sins, rather than on the diligence of our

own scrutiny.

When we examine with constraint, and in the strength of our own

endeavours, we are easily deceived and betrayed by self-love into error; we

believe the evil good, and the good evil (Isaiah 5:20); but when we lie in

full exposure before the Sun of Righteousness, His Divine beams render

the smallest atoms visible.

When souls have attained to this, no fault escapes reprehension. Suchis the scrutiny of Him who suffers no evil to be concealed; and under His

purifying inf luence the one way is to turn affectionately to our Judge, and

bear with meekness the pain and correction He inflicts. Experience will

convince the soul that it is a thousand times more effectually examined by

His Divine Light than by the most active and vigorous self-inspection.

Those who tread these paths should be informed of a matter respect-

ing their Confession in which they are apt to err. When they begin to give

an account of their sins, instead of the regret and contrition they had been

accustomed to feel, they find that love and tranquility sweetly pervade andtake possession of their souls: now those who are not properly instructed

are desirous of withdrawing from this sensation, to form an act of contri-

tion, because they have heard, and with truth, that it is requisite: but they

are not aware that they lose thereby the genuine contrition, which is this

Intuitive Love, infinitely surpassing any effect produced by self-exertion.



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J B, P P B

Week 1 / Thursday

Hoping in God Alone

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within

me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

(Psalm 42:5 -6 )

There is in prayer an unbosoming of a persons self, an opening of the heart

to God, a deeply felt pouring out of the soul in requests, sighs, and groans.

All my longings lie open before you, O Lord, my sighing is not hidden

from you, says David (Psalm 38:9, ). This is the prayer to which thepromise is made for the delivering of the poor creature out of captivity:

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look

for him with all your heart and with all your soul (Deuteronomy 4:29,

).

Prayer must be a pouring out of the heart and soul to God. This shows

the excellency of the spirit of prayer. It is the great God of the universe to

whom prayer attends. When shall we come and appear before God? We

pray when we see an emptiness in all things under heaven. We see that in

God alone there is rest and satisfaction for the soul. The widow who is

really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night

and day to pray and to ask God for help (1 Timothy 5:5, ). So says

David, In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.

Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; turn your ear to me and

save me. Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command

to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God,

from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of evil and cruel men. For you

have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth

(Psalm 71:1-5, ). To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay,

and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned

about except God. And that, as I said before, it does in a sincere, sensible,

and affectionate way.



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The Mountain Is Still Open

I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My

help comes from the L, who made heaven and earth. He will not

allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.

(Psalm 121:1-3, nkjv)

After forty years of exile for his championship of Gods people, the shepherd-

prince found the God of Israel. He was not a stranger to Him in Egypt. He

had renounced the privileges and pleasures of a royal palace and cast in hislot with the afflicted people of his race. He had given proof of his zeal for

the Most High, but he had never had a personal revelation of Him till he

found Him that day in the mount. It is there He reveals Himself as nowhere

else. He manifests Himself to those who pray in secret as He cannot to

those who have no inner sanctuary of the soul.

Moses found the will of God in the mount. It was there he received the

law. After forty days alone with God he brought heavens laws to earth on

two tablets of stone. Those laws remain to this day the foundation of all

righteous government among men. After centuries of progress they are still

the basis of civilization.

He not only received the Commandments which were to be the corner-

stones of good government for all time; he also received directions concern-

ing local and personal details. The way to the mount is still open. The

divine pattern of each life is still to be seen in the secret place of the Most

High God. The humblest follower of Jesus may know the Divine Will at

first hand. It is every mans privilege to be fully assured in the will of God.

The Divine attention to detail is amazing. Nothing is too trivial for

Omniscience. Come straight to God. Do not bother other people. Lay all

questions naked before Him, and He will make it plain to you what is His

will. When God speaks, His speech is easily understood. All questions of

the plain should be settled in the mount, and where there is certainty in the

mount there will be victory on the levels and in the valleys.



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Faith to Grasp His Faithfulness

Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,

and all these things will be added to you.

(Matthew 6: 33 )

Though his father and the Society which ultimately sent him to China both

offered to help with his expenses, he felt he must not lose the opportunity

of further testing the promises of God. There was nothing between him

and want in [London] save the faithfulness of God. Before leaving he hadwritten to his mother:

I am indeed proving the truth of that word, Thou wilt keep him in per-

fect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. My

mind is quite as much at rest as, nay more than, it would be if I had a

hundred pounds in my pocket. May He keep me ever thus, simply

depending on Him for every blessing, temporal as well as spiritual.

And to his sister Amelia:

No situation has turned up in London that will suit me, but I am not con-

cerned about it, as HE is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. His

love is unfailing, His Word unchangeable, His power ever the same; there-

fore the heart that trusts Him is kept in perfect peace. I know He tries

me only to increase my faith, and that it is all in love. Well, if He is glori-

fied, I am content.

For the future, near as well as distant, Hudson Taylor had one all-

sufficient confidence. If that could fail, it were better to make the discovery

in London than far away in China. Deliberately and of his own free will, he

cut himself off from possible sources of supply. It was God, the living God

he needed a stronger faith to grasp His faithfulness, and more experi-

ence of the practicability of dealing with Him about every situation.

Comfort or discomfort in London, means or lack of means, seemed a small

matter compared with deeper knowledge of the One on whom everything

depends.

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