Prayer Holy
THE Ministry of Prayer Has Been the Secret And Power of All of God's People“Prayer must be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, and the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, the growth of our growing.” Prayer in it is magnitude is length without end, width without bounds, height without top, and depth without bottom. Illimitable in it is breadth, exhaustless in height, fathomless in depths and infinite in extension."-HOMER W. HODGE “THE ministry of prayer” has been the peculiar characteristic of all of God’s humans (saints). This has been the mystery of their power. The energy and the soul of their work has been the closet. The need for support outside of man being is so great. Because man’s natural failure to always judge kindly, justly, and truly, and to act the Golden Rule, so prayer is enjoined by Christ to enable man to act in all these things according to the Divine will. By prayer, the capacity is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmoniousness with the law of love. God is our Father, so God will help us. We need God’s good things to help us to “do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God.” We have to have Divine aid to act brotherly, wisely, nobly, to judge veritably and charitably. God’s help to do all these things, in God’s, way is secured by prayer. “Ask, and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.” In the wondrous productivity of Christian graces and duties, the result of giving ourselves wholly to God, as recorded in the twelfth chapter of Romans, we have the words, “Continuing instant in prayer,” preceded by “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,” followed by, “Distributing to the requirement of the (people) saints, given to hospitality.” Paul as a result writes as if these rich and rare graces and unselfish duties, so sweet, bright, generous, and unselfish, had for their center and source the capacity to pray. This is the same word which is applied in the prayer of the disciples which ushered in Pentecost with all of it is rich and glorious blessings of the Holy Spirit. In Colossians, Paul presses the word into the service of prayer again, “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.” The word in it is background and root means strong, the capacity to stay, and persevere steadfast, to hold fast and firm, to give uninterrupted attention to. In Acts, chapter six, it is translated, “Give ourselves continually to prayer.” There is in it constancy, courage, unflinching perseverance. It means giving such marked attention to, and such deep concern to a thing, as will make it evident and controlling. This is an advance in demand on “continue.” Prayer is to be nonstop, without intermission, diligently, no check in desire, in spirit or in act. The spirit and the life ought to always be in the attitude of prayer. The knees may not always be bended, the lips may not always be speaking with words of prayer, but the spirit is always in the act and communicating of prayer. There will have to not be any adjustments of life or spirit for closet hours. The closet spirit ought to sweetly rule and adjust all times and occasions. Our actions and work ought to be performed in the same spirit which makes our devotion and which makes our closet time sacred. “Without intermission, continuously, attentively,” describes a richness, energy, uninterrupted strength and fullness of effort; like the full and exhaustless and spontaneous flow of an artesian stream. Touch the man of God who hence grasps prayer, at any point, at any time, and a full current of prayer is seen flowing from him. But all these indescribable benefits, of which the Holy Spirit is made to us the conveyor, go back in their reputation and all the results are because of prayer. Not on a little routine and a measly procedure prayer is the coming of the Holy Spirit and of His great grace inured, but on prayer that set on fire, by an unquenchable desire, with such a sense of need as cannot be without, with a fixed determination which will not let go, and which will never faint till it wins the greatest good and gets the best and last benediction God has in store for us. The First Christ, Jesus, our Great High Priest, evermore blessed and adored be His Name, was a gracious Comforter, a faithful Guide, a gifted Teacher, a fearless Advocate, a consecrated Friend, and an all powerful Intercessor. The other, “another Comforter,” the Holy Spirit, comes into all these blessed relations of fellowship, authority and aid, with all the tenderness, sweetness, fullness and efficacy of the First Christ. Was the First Christ the Christ of prayer? Did He offer prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto God? Did He seek the silence, the solitude and the darkness that He might pray unheard and un-witnessed save by heaven, in His wrestling agony, for man with God? Does He ever live, enthroned above at the Father’s right hand, there to pray for us? Then how beyond doubt does the other Christ, the other Comforter, the Holy Spirit, represent Jesus Christ as the Christ of prayer! This other Christ, the Comforter, plants Himself not in the waste of the mountain nor far into the night, but in the chill and the night of the humane heart, to arouse it to the struggle, and to instruct it the need and form of prayer. How the Divine Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, puts into the humane heart the load of earth’s almighty need, and makes the humane lips give voice to it is mute and unutterable groaning! What a mighty Christ of prayer is the Holy Spirit! How He quenches each flame in the heart but the flame of heavenly desire! How He quiets, like a weaned child, all the self-will, until in will, in brain, and in heart, and by mouth, we pray only as He prays. “Making intercession for the saints, according to the will of God.”
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Has any individual ever made you holy just through prayer? I was unholy for 3-4 months after neglecting the bible, going to pagans for their supernatural powers and advice, and engaging in pre-marital action but last night a friend of mine prayed for me and now I am holy again... really? |
