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The Still Hour; Or, Communion with God

The Still Hour; Or, Communion with God

Phelps, Austin

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General United States History

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ISBN10: 1458906345
ISBN13: 9781458906342
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.09 Width: 9.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... AS A PRINCE HAST THOU POWER WITH GOD. Gen. 32 1 28 An intrepid faith in prayer will always give it unction. Let the faith of apostles in the reality of prayer as a power with God take possession of a regenerate heart, and it is inconceivable that prayer should be to that heart a lifeless--duty. The joy of hope, at least, will vitalize the duty. The prospect of gaining an object, will always affect thus the expression of intense desire. The feeling which will become spontaneous with a Christian, under the influence of such a trust, is this: 'I come to my devotions this morning, on an errand of real life. This is no romance and no farce. I do not come here to go through a form of words. I have no hopeless desires to express. I have an object to giiin. I have an end to accomplish. Tliis is a bimnesi in which I am about to engage. An astronomer does not turn his telescope to the skies with a more reasonable hope of penetrating those distant heavens, than I liave of reaching the mind of God, by lifting up my heart at the throne of Grace. This is the privilege of my calling of God in Christ Jesus. Even my faltering voice is now to be heard in heaven, and it is to put forth a power there, the results of which only God can know, and only eternity can develop. Therefore, 0 Lord! thy servant findeth it in his heart to pray this prayer unto Thee.' 'Good prayers, ' says an old English divine, 'never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive citlicr what I ask or what I should ask.' Such a habit of feeling as this will give to prayer that quality which Dr. Chalmers observed as being the characteristic of the prayers of Doddridge, --that they had an intensely ' business-like' spirit. Observe how thoroughly this spirit is infused into the scriptural...

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