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Prayer " Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as a friend." " Prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence."
To whom are we to pray? "O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come" (Psalm 65:2)
How willing is God to hear our prayers? "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" (Matthew 7:11). Why are we admonished to pray? " Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near" (Isaiah 55:6) What posture are we to assume when we pray? " O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker" (Psalm 95:6). In whose name are we to pray? " And whatsoever ye shall ask in my [Jesus'] name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son" (John 14:13). What did Jesus say about secret prayer? "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to the Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly" (Matthew 6:6) What example did Jesus leave us regarding the need of secret prayer? "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone" (Matthew 14:23) |
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