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Luke nth chapter, list verse.
Speaking on Prayer" Rev. w. A.
Sunday Tuesday afternoon said:
Lord, teach us to pray" not to live
without it.
Lord, teach US to pray!"
We live physically by exercise.
That's the reason we have gymnasi-
ums. That's the reason we have res
cuers. That's the reason we have
many ways to develop our cities.
That's the reason we have schools
and colleges to develop US intellectu-
ally.
Therefore, that is the reason why
God has Y. WIS and churches, in or
der to develop our spiritual side. We
have got spiritual nature as well as
an intellectual, and so don't live with
out developing both. A well-rounded
man or woman is one to take care Of
his mind and body and soul.
Lord, teach US to pray" We are
taught to live, taught to eat, what not
to eat, and If you find out that some
thing you are eating doesn't agree
with you, why, you are fool to eat it
and you won't. So, that's the way
you care for your body. You feed 1t
three times a day, you warm 1t when
!, it Is cold, you cool 1t when 1t Is warm,
| you send for the doctor when you are
sick, you give it medicine. That is
the way you care for your body. But
what about your souI!"
Some of you haven't read the BIZ
! BILE. Some of you haven't prayed.
Some of you haven't done the things
I that take care of and feed your soul
and build you up spiritually. Prayer Is
a great privilege. 1t is as much of a
privilege to pray as it is to eat when
you are hungry, or breathe or drink
water when you are thirsty, or have
the privilege of warming yourself
when you are cold.
Prayer Is Source of
Blessing
Lord, teach us to pray" A Won
! derful privilege that God gives US all
this! If you are a stranger to prayer,
1 pity you, for you are strangers. to
the source of the greatest blessing
that comes to humanity. The great
est blessing that comes to humanity
is not in being able to eat what you
want or buy the most sensible clothes.
The greatest benediction that comes
to humanity comes through faith in
God and through the spiritual being.
So the Lord wants you to be the best,
and If you haven't had that you have
not had the best yet.
You may not have to ask the price
of anything you buy, if you want 1t,
but you have missed the greatest
blessing If you have missed the Lord
When pray l think as God thinks.
i Some say don't need to pray
They might as we'll say, "You don.
need anything to eat" You might as
we'll say, "You don't need to drink
water" Try it and see! We will put
il to the test and see how you get
along. You won't get along any better
physically than you will spiritually
without prayer.
, "All things whatsoever you shall
ask in prayer" (believing) Eye. shall
receive
The Lord says, 81 know you neet
: 1t, but there is no way to get it if yor
!. don't ask me for it,
God says to the sinner, al know yoL
need salvation, but If you don't think
you need It bad enough to ask for 1t
you can't have It."
The Lord says, 81 know all these
things now and I will be inquired O
! by the house of Israel to do this 70,
them"
~ While the Lord needs 1t, yet HI
2 says, I'D like to have you come anC
talk with me about it. If you wan
! me to do it, talk it over and it shall
! be given you"
I And other people say, well.
! don't get what I pray for!"
' Don't Blame God
For Failure.
: All right, that may be true, bu
: don't blame God, don't blame tn,
Lord. If you didn't incline to do II
ask you to stop, that isn't a fai
!. thing, it isn't womanly, don't blam
E God You might as well refuse t,
5 eat, then blame God because yo1
Y starve to death. You might as vel
E go out here and jump in the river
3 then blame God if you drown. Go,
K made fish for the water. If a fist
tries to live on land it will die Keel
f 1t in your element and it will die.
e l don't blame the Lord Nov
: there is reason! You say, 81 don
!. get what I pray for" In John Ky
e l read, IF you abide in me and m
/, words abide in you, We shall ask wha
k We will, and it shall be done unto YOU
l regard that as one of the mos
/ remarkable verses in the Bible. 81