The Newtown bee., 1899-07-21

This is a wonderful conclusion of most marvellous prayer. The prayers of the Bible, like it's promises,l never grow old. They deal not with the changing surface and circumstances of life, put with it's living heart and abiding need So this marvellous prayer of the Apos- tie is as fresh and full of meaning to-day as when the ink was wet in which ne wrote. Paul was called of God to be minister unto the Gentiles according to the grace given him and the working or it's power. Called to the ministration of a Gospel of double-cure: namely, the Salvation of Sinners, and the Sanctifica- tIon of Believers; implying change of state from guilt to pardon, and change of nature from sin to holiness. Observe that the apostle is here praying for the saints, or believers; that 1t is a prayer for spiritual strength. II DOW nay knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth Is named,-that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to DG HIEEukNhGuSA WAbA " AAA" spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what Is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God" An incomprehensible blessing for the individual experience of the Gen tile world; an infinite fullness for al Christian believers. Crowned and sealed with doxology boundless as the wantI of the human race.
 The apostle 1t would seem had ex hausted all the forms of supplication and now casts himself upon the infni tude of God, who was able to supply more than the thoughts or desireI of men could possibly suggest iH thu sphere of prayer. That infinitely above all human conception God is able. Le us hold the thought,
 THAT OUR GOD IS THE ALMIGHTY ONE able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Mark the eli max of this language. Able to do al we ask or think; that of itself would bt exceedingly comforting. But more "He is able to do above all we ask ol thlnk.n Nay, more. ''Abundantly aboye.n And still more. s'Exceedina abundantly above all we ask or think Unbounded possibilities to the believing praying soul, who throws himself upon the inhnItude of God.
 o Thou Great Head of the Church; let us have the prayer and faith once deliy. cred unto the saints, and the glory which belongs to the church. Two things make us strong in prayer. A deep sense oi need, and strong hope of supply. We approach God in one of two ways; either on our own merits or on the merits oi Christ. If on our own merits we cannot ask too little; If on the merits of Chris we cannot ask too much. In the merit. of Christ we have at our command: "Ask what ye will and 1t shall be don. unto you" But I observe in this dox ology a kind of balance wheel. Accord ing to the power that worketh in us.' The power of redeeming grace which hath appeared unto salvation. The in finite, unlimited power of the Almighty God. The principal thing that Got does for ia what He does in us There is a power that worketh for us II virtue of whose supreme disposal, ssAl