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Lesson 10 - What About Prayer? Part III. Cont'd.

You might appreciate some other things      5.Fellowship with God produces 
that people have written about prayer.      holiness in the life. 
Here are some:                             
                                            6.The church was born in the Upper 
     The Secret                             Room; the church today has substituted
                                            the Supper Room for the Upper Room.
I met God in the morning
When the day was at its best                7.Prayer is not an easy way of getting 
And His presence came like sunrise,         what we want but the only way of
Like a glory in my breast.                  becoming what God wants us to be.

All day long the Presence lingered.         8.A short prayer will reach the throne if 
All day long He stayed with me,             you don't live too far away.
And we sailed in perfect calmness
O'er a very troubled sea.                   9.WHICH IS YOUR CASE: Prayer
                                            will keep you from sin or sin will keep
Other ships were blown and battered.        you from prayer.
Other ships were sore distressed,
But the winds that seemed to drive them     10.Prayer is a serious thing; we may be
Brought to us a peace and rest              taken at our words.

Then I thought of other mornings            11.When it is hardest to pray, we ought
With a keen remorse of mind                 to pray hardest.
When I, too, had loosed the moorings
With the Presence left behind.              12.The secret of prayer is secret prayer.

So I think I know the secret                13.Prayer is not overcoming God's
Learned from many a troubled way            reluctance but taking hold of God's
You must seek Him in the morning            willingness.
If you want Him through the day. 
                                            14.If your knees knock, kneel on them.
     --Author unknown. 
                                            15.Charles Finney said, "Prayer is not to
1.We ought to keep account of               change God but to change us."
our prayers so we may not
unsay them in our practice.                 16.The man who does all his praying on
                                            his knees does not pray enough.
2.A Coffee Break is good, but how 
about a Prayer Break or a Praise Break?     17.To be prepared you must be pre-
                                            prayered.
3.You cannot stumble on your knees. 
                                            18.When we pray for rain, we must be
4.The devil trembles when he sees the       willing to put up with some mud.
weakest saint upon his knees. 
 
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