Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It?Moody, Dwight Lyman
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Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It?
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Christian life; Prayer -- Christianity
“If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto
his neighbor in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship,
or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor; or
have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth
falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein; then
it shall be, because he hath sinned and is guilty, that he shall
restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he
hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or
the lost thing which he found, or all that about which he hath sworn
falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the
fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth,
in the day of his trespass offering.”
The same thing is repeated in Numbers, where we read--“And the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, When a
man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass
against the Lord, and that person be guilty; then they shall confess
their sin which they have done; and he shall recompense his trespass
with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof,
and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. But if the man
have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be
recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest, beside the ram of the
atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made of him.”
These were the laws that God laid down for His people, and I believe
their principle is as binding to-day as it was then. If we have taken
anything from any man, if we have in any way defrauded a man, let us
not only confess it, but do all we can to make restitution. If we have
misrepresented any one--if we have started some slander, or some false
report about him--let us do all in our power to undo the wrong.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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