Alexander Whyte

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21.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 18 - THE PLEADING NOTE IN PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Let us plead together."-Isa.xliii. 26. WE all know quite well what it is to "plead together." We all plead with one another every day. We all understand the exclamation of the patriarch Job quite well-"O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour." We have a special orde ...read more

22.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 19 - CONCENTRATION IN PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "When thou hast shut thy door."-Matt. vi. 6. We shut our door when we wish to be alone. We shut our door when we have some special work to do that must to-day be done, some piece of work that has been far too long put off and postponed. "I have some time to myself to-day," we say to our household. "Tell t ...read more

23.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 20 - IMAGINATION IN PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "Full of eyes."-Rev. iv. 8. I NEVER see, or hear, or speak, or write the word "imagination" without being arrested and recalled to what Pascal and Butler and Edwards have all said, with such power and with such passion, on the subject of imagination. Pascal-himself all compact of imagination as he is-Pasc ...read more

24.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 21 - THE FORGIVING SPIRIT IN PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any."-Mark xi. 25. PRAYER is a world by itself, a whole world, and a great world too. There is a science of prayer, and there is an art of prayer. There are more arts than one that rise out of a life of prayer, and that go to make up a life of pray ...read more

25.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 22 - THE SECRET BURDEN
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Apart. . ."-Zech. xii. 12. Down to Gehenna, and up to the throne, He travels the fastest, who travels alone THAT is to say, secret sin, and secret prayer, have this in common; that they both make a man travel his fastest. Secret sin makes him who commits it travel his fastest down to Gehenna,-that is ...read more

26.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 23 - THE ENDLESS QUEST
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (lit. that seek Him out)."-Heb. xi. 6. I MUST not set myself up as a man able to mend, and to make improvements upon, the English translation of the Greek Testament. At the same time, it seems to me ...read more

27.) Our Lord as a Believing Man
      The workings of our Lord's human mind, the affections and the emotions of our Lord's human heart, and all the spiritual experiences of our Lord's human life-take Jesus Christ in all these things, and He is the most absorbing, the most satisfying, and the most sanctifying study in all the universe. There is no other doctrine in heaven or on earth fo ...read more

28.) Starving Prayer
      "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you" (Col. 1:3). I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them. Prayer worth calling prayer: prayer t ...read more

29.) To Take Away Sin
      "... to give his life a ransom for many" (Matt. 20:28). You have heard sometimes about hell being let loose. Yes, but hear this. Come to Caiaphas' palace on the passover night, and look at this. "Then did they spit in His face, and buffeted Him: they blindfolded Him and then they smote Him with the palms of their hands, saying: Prophesy to us, T ...read more

30.) Truly Penitent
      "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God" (Isa. 40:1). No man living in any known sin is ever comforted of God. The Holy Ghost never yet spake one word of all His abounding consolations to any man so long as he lived in any actual sin, or in any neglect of known duty. You have that much-needed caution bound up into the very heart of ...read more