Quiet Talks On Prayer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. HINDRANCES TO PRAYER 1. Why The Results Fail. 2. Why The Results Are Delayed. 3. The Great Outside Hindrance, Or, The Relation Of Prayer To Satan. Why the Results Fail Breaking with God. God answers prayer. Prayer is God and man joining hands to secure some high end. He joins p with us through the communication of prayer in F L 3 accomplishing certain great results. This is the £ main drive of prayer. Our asking and expecting and God's doing jointly bring to pass things that otherwise would not come to pass.; Prayer changes things. This is the great fact of prayer. Yeta great many prayers are not answered. Or, to put it more accurately, a great many prayers fail utterly of accomplishing any results. Probably it is accurate to say that thousands of prayers t go up and bring nothing down. This is certainly true. Let us say it just as bluntly and plainly as it can be said. As a result many persons are saying: "Well, prayer is not what you claim for it: we prayed and no answer came: nothing was changed." From all sorts of circles, and in all sorts of Ian- "" guage comes this statement. Scholarly men who 1/4 ) write with wisdom's words, and thoughtless people whose thinking never even pricks the skin F. of the subject, and all sorts of people in between group themselves together here. And they are right, quite right. The bother is that what they say is not all there is to be said. There is yet more to be said, that is right too, and that changes the final conclusion radically. Partial truth is a very mean sort of lie. t he The prayer plan like many another has been much disturbed, and often broken. And one who would be a partner with God up to the limit of his power must understand the things that hinder the prayer plan. There...