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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prayed. The closet is not the place for recitation. What more common than this expression, I must say my prayers? Must you, indeed? Is this the way you speak of it? Is it a task to which you are going reluctantly to apply yourself? And say your prayers too How this contrasts with the cheerful purpose of the psalmist: My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. Perhaps one brings his gift to the altar, and forgets that his brother has aught against him; or remembering it, does not go first and seek reconciliation with him, but proceeds to offer his gift, and that is the reason it is not accepted. Many a Christian hinders his prayer by indulging;n that species of unbelief which surmises that what he asks is too great, a thing for God to bestow on one so unworthy as he is. He forgets that the greatest, aye, the greatest gift, has already been conferred in God's own Son, and the foundation therein laid for the argument, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things ? God having begun his bounty in such a style of magnificence, consistency requires him now to go on, and do the greatest possible thing for the recipients of his Son. I MUST PEAISE MOKE. We ought to praise more, as well as pray more. I do not know how it is with others, but I know thatI have a great deal for which to be thankful and to praise God. I feel that it will not do for me to spend all my breath in prayer. I should thus, it is true, acknowledge my dependence on God; but where would be the acknowledgment of his benefits conferred upon me ? I must spend a part of my breath in praise. O, to be animated from above with that life whose alternate breath is prayer and praise God has been very good to me. Yes, he ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217779807 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217779808 |
| Weight | 0.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 112 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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