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
What a responsibility on the Church to give herself to the work of
intercession! What a responsibility on every minister, missionary,
worker, set apart for the saving of souls, to yield himself wholly to
act out and prove his faith: "My God will hear me!" And what a call on
every believer, instead of burying and losing this talent, to seek to
the very utmost to use it in prayer and supplication for all saints and
for all men. My God will hear me: The deeper our entrance into the truth
of this wondrous power God hath given to men, the more whole-hearted
will be our surrender to the work of intercession.
5. "_My God will hear me._" _What a blessed prospect!_--I see it--all
the failures of my past life have been owing to the lack of this faith.
My failure, especially in the work of intercession, has had its deepest
root in this--I did not live in the full faith of the blessed assurance,
"_My God will hear me!_" Praise God! I begin to see it--I believe it.
All can be different. Or, rather, I see Him, I believe Him. "_My God
will hear me!_" Yes, me, even me! Commonplace and insignificant though I
be, filling but a very little place, so that I will scarce be missed
when I go--even I have access to this Infinite God, with the confidence
that He heareth me. One with Christ, led by the Holy Spirit, I dare to
say: "I will pray for others, for I am sure my God will listen to me:
'_My God will hear me._'" What a blessed prospect before me--every
earthly and spiritual anxiety exchanged for the peace of God, who cares
for all and hears prayer. What a blessed prospect in my work--to know
that even when the answer is long delayed, and there is a call for much
patient, persevering prayer, the truth remains infallibly sure--"_My God
will hear me!_"
And what a blessed prospect for Christ's Church if we could but all give
prayer its place, give faith in God its place, or, rather, _give the
prayer-hearing God His place_! Is not this the one great thing, those,
who in some little measure begin to see the urgent need of prayer, ought
in the first place to pray for. When God, at the first, time after time,
poured forth the Spirit on His praying people, He laid down the law for
all time: as much of prayer, so much of the Spirit. Let each one who can
say, "_My God will hear me_," join in the fervent supplication, that
throughout the Church that truth may be restored to its true place, and
the blessed prospect will be realised: a praying Church endued with the
power of the Holy Ghost.
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