Praise and Prayer PRAY your prayers! Don’’t say them! Indeed, it may be that, apart from divine inspiration, the most potent and eloquent pleadings are those inarticulate groanings which are wrung from our hearts in our infirmity and ignorance. We are not aware what we should be praying for, because we do not know the…

Praise and Prayer THERE IS A SEASON for everything, and much depends on doing everything in its appropriate time. So it is with Praise and prayer. This not only applies to us in our daily life, but also to the conduct of God’s saints throughout the past and future eras. What suited the saints under…

Praise and Prayer GOD’S GRAND GOAL is to be Everything in every one of His creatures (1 Cor.15:28). In order to accomplish this there must be intercommunication between them. God speaks to men in His Word. Men speak to Him in praise and prayer. Very few listen attentively to what He has to say, but…

Praise and Prayer  “HIGH PLACES,” or fane heights, were sacred as sites for prayer and worship in Israel up to the time of Solomon. These had been so used by the alien nations before them. Balak took Balaam to a fane height devoted to Baal, in order to get him to curse Israel (Num. 22:41).…

Praise and Prayer THANKFULNESS for favors received, for prayers answered, for benefits enjoyed, should arise from every grateful heart. But this falls far short of our privileges for today. Prayer should be accompanied by thanksgiving, before the answer comes, along with the petition. That is the faith that honors God! Let us be grateful that…

Praise and Prayer GOD’S WORD AND WORK should be the special subject of persevering prayer by the saints in this administration of God’s grace. Paul’s epistles provide the precepts, and Paul himself is our pattern in this, as in all else (1 Cor. 4:16; 11:1; 1 Thess.1:6; Phil. 3:17). He prayed for us that God…

Praise and Prayer  CAN A MAN by searching find out God? Is humanity endowed by nature to discover the Deity? Can he perceive Him in Creation? Can he learn to know Him by logical deduction? Is God revealed to all who read the Bible? Is the saint fully equipped to comprehend Him if he searches…

Praise and Prayer MOST FORLORN of all mankind are we if our expectation is limited to this life (1 Cor.15:19). Material prosperity, sensations of pleasure, and high honors, are by no means the special prerogatives of the saints in Paul’s latest revelations. He himself, as their chief representative, lived a life of great hardship, with…

Praise and Prayer THE LOT takes all determination out of the hands of man and puts it into the hands of God. All life, all history, is due to divine allotment. Even if man does try to force his wild will into the perfect plans of the Deity, it can only play the part assigned…

Praise and Prayer  MUCH ON EARTH seems to be but a shadow of that in the heavens. We read of the ritual of messengers (Col. 2:18). The divine service of Israel seems to have human imitations, copied from that carried on among the celestials. The holy places made by hands were only representations of the…