The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More PrayerMurray, Andrew
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The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More Prayer
Murray, Andrew
Intercessory prayer -- Christianity
The Holy Spirit is the power of God for the salvation of men. He only
works as He dwells in the Church. He is given to enable believers to
live wholly as God would have them live, in the full experience and
witness of Him who saves completely. Pray God that every one of His
people may know the Holy Spirit!--That He, in all His fulness, is given
to them! that they cannot expect to live as their Father would have,
without having Him in His fulness, without being filled with Him! Pray
that all God's people, even away in churches gathered out of heathendom,
may learn to say: I believe in the Holy Ghost.
HOW TO PRAY.--Labouring fervently in Prayer
="Epaphras, who is one of you, saluteth you, always labouring
fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete
in all the will of God."=--COL. iv. 12.
To a healthy man labour is a delight; in what interests him he labours
fervently. The believer who is in full health, whose heart is filled
with God's Spirit, labours fervently in prayer. For what? That his
brethren may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God; that
they may know what God wills for them, how He calls them to live, and be
led and walk by the Holy Ghost. Labour fervently in prayer that all
God's children may know this, as possible, as divinely sure.
SPECIAL PETITIONS
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TWENTY-NINTH DAY
WHAT TO PRAY.--For the Spirit of Intercession
="I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit;
that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give
it you."=--JOHN xv. 16.
="Hitherto ye have asked nothing in My name. In that day ye shall
ask in My name."=--JOHN xvi. 24, 26.
Has not our school of intercession taught us how little we have prayed
in the name of Jesus? He promised His disciples: In that day, when the
Holy Spirit comes upon you, ye shall ask in My name. Are there not tens
of thousands with us mourning the lack of the power of intercession? Let
our intercession to-day be for them and all God's children, that Christ
may teach us that the Holy Spirit is in us; and what it is to live in
His fulness, and to yield ourselves to His intercession work within us.
The Church and the world need nothing so much as a mighty Spirit of
Intercession to bring down the power of God on earth. Pray for the
descent from heaven of the Spirit of Intercession for a great prayer
revival.
HOW TO PRAY.--Abiding in Christ
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