The high priest carried the names of the Children of Israel upon his shoulders and breast when he drew near to God - a picture of what Christ now does, and what all Christians should do. God and your conscience are witness how little you intercede for your children, your servants, your neighbours, the Church of your fathers, and the wicked on every side of you. How little you pray for ministers, for the gift of the Spirit, for the conversion of the world. How selfish you are even in your prayers. It is to be feared there is little union in prayer .
Christians are ashamed to meet together to pray.
Many Christians neglect this promise. Here is one reason why God commands the clouds that they rain no rain on us. He waits till we seek Him together , and then He will open the windows of heaven and pour down a blessing. In unconverted souls . Sinners in our day have great insensibility as to their lost condition .