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| Q:11 The Steps of Christ Show 'Steps To Christ' is inspired. Chapter 11: The Privilege of Prayer Ellen p. 93" Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. Speak to Jesus and hear Him speak back to you are a still small voice in your conscience, via the Holy Spirit. Ellen p. 95" There are certain conditions upon which we may expect that God will hear and answer our prayers. One of the first of these is that we feel our need of help from Him. Overcome your fallen natural flesh and it's Baal master powers of human effort, but sowing Jesus as the WORD personally. "Sow Seeds Spiritually". Seek "spiritual springs". Pray privately in person on your feet using 'prayer promises of His power'. Ellen p. 95" Our great need is itself an argument and pleads most eloquently in our behalf. But the Lord is to be sought unto to do these things for us. He says, “Ask, and it shall be given you.” If can't specifically remember a 'prayer promise of power', claim "ask anything in My Name' and hope for His powers to flow in you. Ellen p. 95" If we regard iniquity in our hearts, if we cling to any known sin, the Lord will not hear us; but the prayer of the penitent, contrite soul is always accepted. Ps 66:18 If I regard iniquity (aven) "propensity" in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: The greatest propensity to deal with is Baal master powers of self, they came flooding into being when Adam did his first missing of God's power. Ellen p. 96" Another element of prevailing prayer is faith. “He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6. Jesus said to His disciples, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11:24. Do we take Him at His word? Support Jesus, take His words, and take Him at His word. Ellen p. 97" How can we pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” and yet indulge an unforgiving spirit? Matthew 6:12. If we expect our own prayers to be heard we must forgive others in the same manner and to the same extent as we hope to be forgiven. Support cannot be selfish, that's not support anyway. A contradiction in terms. Ellen p. 97" Perseverance in prayer has been made a condition of receiving. We must pray always if we would grow in faith and experience. We are to be “instant in prayer,” to “continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.” Be constant in prayer promises. "Sow Seeds Spiritually. Springs flowing fervently in you" Ellen p. 98" There is necessity for diligence in prayer; let nothing hinder you. Make every effort to keep open the communion between Jesus and your own soul. Keep the conscience communion open. Listen to GOD. Get rid of muscial technology share that drown our the still small voice. Listen for the peace in a noisey bush garden with GOD. Ellen p. 98" We should pray in the family circle, and above all we must not neglect secret prayer, for this is the life of the soul. It is impossible for the soul to flourish while prayer is neglected. Family or public prayer alone is not sufficient. In solitude let the soul be laid open to the inspecting eye of God. Secret prayer is to be heard only by the prayer-hearing God. Public prayers and private prayers have their place. Formal prayers on your knees. Fast prayers on your feet.Prayer is really you talking and listening to GOD. Not an empty storm. Expect the showers of blessing when you "sow seeds spiritually". Ellen p. 99" Pray in your closet, and as you go about your daily labor let your heart be often uplifted to God. It was thus that Enoch walked with God. These silent prayers rise like precious incense before the throne of grace. Satan cannot overcome him whose heart is thus stayed upon God. "Secret sowing seed spiritually, secures Spirit specific springs". There is no time or place in which it is inappropriate to offer up a petition to God. There is nothing that can prevent us from lifting up our hearts in the spirit of earnest prayer. In the crowds of the street, in the midst of a business engagement, we may send up a petition to God and plead for divine guidance, as did Nehemiah when he made his request before King Artaxerxes. A closet of communion may be found wherever we are. Pray any time, anywhere. Ellen p. 101" God does not mean that any of us should become hermits ormonks and retire from the world in order to devote ourselves toacts of worship. The life must be like Christ’s life—between themountain and the multitude. Divine love is relational, active and functional, like a light not under a bushel. Ellen p. 102" If Christians would associate together, speaking to each other of the love of God and of the precious truths of redemption, their own hearts would be refreshed and they would refresh one another. We may be daily learning more of our heavenly Father, gaining a fresh experience of His grace; then we shall desire to speak of His love; and as we do this, our own hearts will be warmed and encouraged. If we thought and talked more of Jesus, and less of self, we should have far more of His presence. Talk less, listen more and get a fire going inside of you. Ellen p. 103" We do not pray any too much, but we are too sparing of giving thanks. We are the constant recipients of God’s mercies, and yet how little gratitude we express, how little we praise Him for what He has done for us. Learn to be grateful. Be aware of others worse than you. Think of the eternal cost of life Jesus paid for you. Ellen p. 104" We must gather about the cross. Christ and Him crucified should be the theme of contemplation, of conversation, and of our most joyful emotion. The last letter of Hebrew, it the "t" symbol, and important mark. The Cross became the finisher of Hebrew salvation for you. Now let's see how Jesus shows us prayer as a theme in the 'Steps to Christ' with 'The Privilege of Prayer'. Yashua 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. When you call out to a person, one does talking, the other listening. What is that process called in Scipture as a Spiritual Spring? The Privilege of Prayer. This poetry line has many applications of meaning. Jesus called His Church out of Egypt, and saved them.The Father called His Son Jesus also out of Egypt and saved Him. We have the idea that our need of a Saviour is to rescue us from sinning and it's destructive ways.But the universe of function and dysfunction existed eternally with GOD, the earth was formed out from chaos. There is always from eternity a need for GOD to drive the dysfunction away and cause the functional to continue. Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things... (KJV) Our need of GOD is eternal, even if we do not further sinning, or none at all as Jesus did on earth, we are always in need of a Pr ovider and Responder of Love. Yashua 11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images But instead of praying and calling to God, they did sacrifice instead, and practised Baal master human powers of self. Such works of following the law mean nothing to God. Yashua 11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. Jesus led His Church by the arms, in a Divine Relationship, but they did not intimately know Jesus, who healed them. Why is that? The verse before tells us they followed their own selves as master, they practiced whatever holiness they saw using human powers only under Baal, the Hebrew word meaning master, the process of serving self. Yashua 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. With cords of love, Jesus led them. They were yoked to Jesus. They walked with Jesus in relationship. Yashua 11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. But sadly the relationship was crooked, and they did backsliding. They prayed to the Most High, our Father in heaven, but they did not exalt the Father.There prayers were like an empty-storm. Yashua 11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? But Jesus would not give us on is church in the OT times. Jesus does not give up on His church in the NT times either. Yashua 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man;.. Jesus is not like man, and has mercy, abundant love and grace. Yashua 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful (aman) "supporting" with the saints. And while some church assemblies practiced lies, some were supporting Jesus correctly. This suppport of Jesus, from functional assemblies, included study, prayer and sharing His fruit with others. Shalom The next chapter of Steps To Christ, concerns What to Do with Doubt |
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