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The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take
hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy
disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what
we had thought to be prayer.

-- Robert L. Short

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May 26, 2007


THINK AS JESUS TAUGHT

Pray without ceasing (1Thessalonians 5:17)

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life. Beware of anything that stops ejaculatory prayer. "Pray without ceasing," keep the childlike habit of ejaculatory prayer in your heart to God all the time.

Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer, He had the boundless certainty that prayer is always answered. Have we by the Spirit the unspeakable certainty that Jesus had about prayer, or do we think of the times when God does not seem to have answered prayer? "Every one that asketh receiveth." We say - "But..., but . . ." God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow. Do we expect God to answer prayer?

The danger with us is that we want to water down the things that Jesus says and make them mean something in accordance with common sense; if it were only common sense, it was not worth while for Him to say it. The things Jesus says about prayer are supernatural revelations.

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May 28, 2007


UNQUESTIONED REVELATION

And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing. John 16:23


When is "that day"? When the Ascended Lord makes you one with the
Father. In that day you will be one with the Father as Jesus is, and
"in that day," Jesus says, "ye shall ask Me nothing." Until the
resurrection life of Jesus is manifested in you, you want to ask this
and that; then after a while you find all questions gone, you do not
seem to have any left to ask. You have come to the place of entire
reliance on the resurrection life of Jesus which brings you into
perfect contact with the purpose of God. Are you living that life
now? If not, why shouldn't you?

There may be any number of things dark to your understanding, but
they do not come in between your heart and God. "And in that day ye
shall ask Me no question" - you do not need to, you are so certain
that God will bring things out in accordance with His will. John 14:1
has become the real state of your heart, and there are no more
questions to be asked. If anything is a mystery to you and it is
coming in between you and God, never look for the explanation in your
intellect, look for it in your disposition, it is that which is
wrong. When once your disposition is willing to submit to the life of
Jesus, the under standing will be perfectly clear, and you will get
to the place where there is no distance between the Father and His
child because the Lord has made you one, and "in that day ye shall
ask Me no question."