Archive for June, 2010

Prayer Power Key: Love (2)

Continued from Part 1
There is a second, more general lesson: My drawing nigh to God is of one piece with my intercourse with men and earth: failure here will cause failure there. And that not only when there is the distinct consciousness of anything wrong between my neighbor and myself; but the ordinary current of [...]

Prayer Power Key: Love (1)

PRAYER AND LOVE

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. Mark 11:25

THESE words follow immediately on the great prayer-promise, `All things whatsoever ye pray, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.’ We have already [...]

What the Bible Says About Fasting

A frequent question about fasting is What does the Bible say?
Here is:

an audio answer to the question
a brief article with Scripture links
an extensive article with Scripture links

One of the books of the Bible does not contain the name of God, yet there is an account of fasting and deliverance that is acknowledged annually by Jewish [...]

Prayer Power Key: Fasting (2)

Continued from Part 1
There is nothing needs so touch to grow as our faith. ‘Your faith grows exceedingly,’ is said of one Church. When Jesus spoke the words,
According to your faith be it unto you,
He announced the law of the kingdom, which tells us that all have not equal degrees faith, that the same person [...]

Prayer Power Key: Fasting (1)

PRAYER AND FASTING

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it [...]

Prayer Power Tip: Time with God

FELLOWSHIP DAILY WITH GOD
The Divine life within us comes from God, and is entirely dependent upon Him.
The great object of fellowship with God, that we may have more of God in our lives, and that God may see Christ formed in us.
1. Begin each day by tarrying before God, and letting Him touch you. Take [...]

Prayer Power Key: Faith (3)

…Continued from Part 2

Though we have God’s promises in the Bible, with full liberty to take them, the spiritual power is wanting, except as God Himself speaks them to us. And He speaks to those who walk and live with Him. Therefore, HAVE FAITH IN GOD: let faith be all eye and ear, the surrender [...]

Prayer Power Key: Faith (2)

…Continued from Part 1

When faith now is in full exercise as eye and ear, as the faculty of the soul by which we see and hear God, then it will be able to exercise its full power as hand and mouth, by which we appropriate God and His blessings. The power of reception will depend [...]

Prayer Power Key: Faith (1)

THE SECRET OF BELIEVING PRAYER
Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.
Therefore I tell you, [...]