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you to come unto Him? Never allow yourself to talk in a hopeless,
discouraged way. If you do you will lose much. By looking at ap-
pearances and complaining when difficulties and pressure come, you
give evidence of a sickly, enfeebled faith. Talk and act as if your faith
was invincible. The Lord is rich in resources; He owns the world.
Look heavenward in faith. Look to Him who has light and power and
efficiency.
There is in genuine faith a buoyancy, a steadfastness of principle,
and a fixedness of purpose that neither time nor toil can weaken. “Even
the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:30, 31
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There are many who long to help others, but they feel that they
have no spiritual strength or light to impart. Let them present their
petitions at the throne of grace. Plead for the Holy Spirit. God stands
back of every promise He has made. With your Bible in your hands
say, I have done as Thou hast said. I present Thy promise, “Ask, and
it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you.”
We must not only pray in Christ’s name, but by the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit. This explains what is meant when it is said that the
Spirit “maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be
uttered.”
Romans 8:26
. Such prayer God delights to answer. When
with earnestness and intensity we breathe a prayer in the name of
Christ, there is in that very intensity a pledge from God that He is
about to answer our prayer “exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think.”
Ephesians 3:20
.
Christ has said, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
Mark 11:24
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“Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son.”
John 14:13
. And the beloved John, under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, speaks with great plainness and
assurance: “If we ask anything 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
. Then press
your petition to the Father in the name of Jesus. God will honor that
name.