Quiet Talks On Prayer - Softcover

Gordon, S. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502443023 ISBN 13: 9781502443021

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

There are five outlets of power: five avenues through which God shows Himself, and reveals His power. First: through the life, what we are. Just simply what we are. If we be right the power of God will be constantly flowing out, though we be not conscious of it. It throws the keenest kind of emphasis on a man being right in his life. There will be an eager desire to serve. Yet we may do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired. Second: through the lips, what we say. It may be said stammeringly and falteringly. But if said your best with the desire to please the Master it will be God-blest. I have heard a man talk. And he stuttered and blushed and got his grammar badly tangled, but my heart burned as I listened. And I have heard a man talk with smooth speech, and it rolled off me as easily as it rolled out of him. Do your best, and leave the rest. If we are in touch with God His fire burns whether the tongue stammer or has good control of its powers. Third: through our service, what we do. It may be done bunglingly and blunderingly. Your best may not be the best, but if it be your best it will bring a harvest. Fourth: through our money, what we do not keep, but loosen out for God. Money comes the nearest to omnipotence of anything we handle. And, fifth: through our prayer, what we claim in Jesus' name. And by all odds the greatest of these is the outlet through prayer.

About this title

Book Description

In the distinctive and admired style that made Gordon famous, the writer explores the creative power unleashed in the place of prayer. Gordon leads readers out of the habitual, forced patterns of prayer into a realm where prayer lives as it is activated by the Spirit of God.

From the Back Cover

What is prayer? Can humans influence God's will? Why does it seem that many prayers go unanswered?

The mysteries of the communication between God and his faithful are explored in this 1904 guide to the power and puzzle of prayer: how God heeds our entreaties, the ideal spirit with which to pray, and even what prayer means in the grand scheme of The Universe.

Those who pray will find this a source of comfort and enlightenment even today, a century after it was first published.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1502443023
• ISBN 13: 9781502443021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194