What! one superfluous drop! one redundant pang! one unneeded cross! Hush the secret atheism! He gave His Son for thee! He calls Himself "thy Father!" Whatever be the trial under which thou art now smarting, let the word of a gracious Saviour be "like oil thrown on the fretful sea;" let it dry every rebellious tear-drop. "He, thine unerring Parent, knoweth that thou hast need of _this_ as well as _all_ these things." "THY WORD IS VERY SURE, THEREFORE THY SERVANT LOVETH IT." 3D DAY. "Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said"-- "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."--John xiv. 13. The Power of Prayer. Blessed Jesus! it is Thou who hast unlocked to Thy people the gates of prayer. Without Thee they must have been shut forever. It was Thy atoning merit on earth that first opened them; it is Thy intercessory work in heaven that keeps them open still. How unlimited the promise--"_Whatsoever ye shall ask!_" It is the pledge of all that the needy sinner requires--all that an Omnipotent Saviour can bestow! As the great Steward of the mysteries of grace, He seems to say to His faithful servants, "Take thy bill, and under this, my superscription, write what you please." And then, when the blank is filled up, he further endorses each petition with the words, "_I WILL do it!_" He farther encourages us to ask "_in His name_." In the case of an earthly petitioner there are some pleas more influential in obtaining a boon than others. Jesus speaks of _this_ as forming the key to the heart of God. As David loved the helpless cripple of Saul's house "_for Jonathan's sake_," so will the Father, by virtue of our covenant relationship to the true JONATHAN (_lit._, "the gift of God"), delight in giving us even "exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think."