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PRAYER IN THE FATHER’S HEARING Father, I thank Thee that thou hast heard Me. John 11:41 When the Son of God prays, He has only one consciousness, and that consciousness is of His Father. God always hears the prayers of His Son, and if the Son of God is formed in me the Father will always hear my prayers. I have to see that the Son of God is manifested in my mortal flesh. “Your body is the t..

PRAYER IN THE FATHER’S HONOUR “That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” Luke 1:35 If the Son of God is born into my mortal flesh, is His holy innocence and simplicity and oneness with the Father getting a chance to manifest itself in me? What was true of the Virgin Mary in the historic introduction of God’s Son into this earth is true in every saint. ..

PRAYER IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE “Wist ye not that I must be in My Father’s house?” Luke 2:49, RV Our Lord’s childhood was not immature manhood: our Lord’s childhood is an eternal fact. Am I a holy innocent child of God by identification with my Lord and Saviour? Do I look upon life as being in my Father’s house? Is the Son of God living in His Father’s house in me? The abiding Real..

THE CROSS IN PRAYER “At that day ye shall ask in My name.” John 16:26 We are too much given to thinking of the Cross as something we have to get through; we get through it only in order to get into it. The Cross stands for one thing only for us—a complete and entire and absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is nothing in which this identification is realized more t..

THE BAFFLING CALL OF GOD “And all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. . . . And they understood none of these things.” Luke 18:31, 34 God called Jesus Christ to what seemed unmitigated disaster. Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death; He led every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken. Jesus Christ’s..

THE BRAVE COMRADESHIP OF GOD “Men He took unto Him the twelve.” Luke 18:31 The bravery of God in trusting us! You say—“But He has been unwise to choose me, because there is nothing in me; I am not of any value.” That is why He chose you. As long as you think there is something in you, God cannot choose you because you have ends of your own to serve; but if you have let Him bring you t..

THE BIG COMPELLING OF GOD “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem.” Luke 18:31 Jerusalem stands in the life of Our Lord as the place where He reached the climax of His Father’s will. “I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me.” That was the one dominating interest all through Our Lord’s life, and the things He met with on the way, joy or sorrow, success or failu..

THE DISCIPLINE OF DIFFICULTY “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33. An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble. It is deliverance in trouble, which is very different. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High. . . there shall no evil befall thee”—no plague can come nigh th..

SOMETHING MORE ABOUT HIS WAYS “When Jesus had made an end of commanding His disciples, He departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.” Matthew 11:1. He comes where He commands us to leave. If when God said “Go,” you stayed, because you were so concerned about your people at home, you robbed them of the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left ..

TILL YOU ARE ENTIRELY HIS “Let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may Be finished and complete, with never a defect.” James 1:4, MOFFAT Many of us are all right in the main, but there are some domains in which we are slovenly. It is not a question of sin, but of remnants of the carnal life which are apt to make us slovenly. Slovenliness is an insult to the Holy Ghost. There s..