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Ärende: Invitation to Pray
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

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      Wednesday 06-29 / Invitation to Pray
      Robert Prodoehl
      Jun 28, 2005


Invitation to Pray

"Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things,
which thou knowest not" (Jeremiah 33:3).

God encourages us to pray. They tell us that prayer is a pious exercise which
has no influence except upon the mind engaged in it. We know better. Our
experience gives the lie a thousand times over to this infidel assertion. Here
Jehovah, the living God, distinctly promises to answer the prayer of His
servant. Let us call upon Him again and admit no doubt upon the question of His
hearing us and answering us. He that made the ear, shall He not hear? He that
gave parents a love to their children, will He not listen to the cries of His
own sons and daughters!

God will answer His pleading people in their anguish. He has wonders in store
for them. What they have never seen, heard of, or dreamed of, He will do for
them. He will invent new blessings if needful. He will ransack sea and land to
feed them: He will send every angel out of heaven to succor them if their
distress requires it. He will astound us with His grace and make us feel that
it was never before done in this fashion. All He asks of us is that we will
call upon Him. He cannot ask less of us. Let us cheerfully render Him our
prayers at once.

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673 148th J. BERRIDGE
No Rest but Christ. Isa. 11. 10; Matt. 11. 28, 29

1 When Jesus' gracious hand
Has touched our eyes and ears,
O what a dreary land
The wilderness appears!
No healing balm springs from its dust; No cooling stream to quench the thirst.

2 Yet long I vainly sought
A resting-place below;
And that sweet land forgot
Where living waters flow;
I hunger now for heavenly food,
And my poor heart cries out for God.

3 [Lord, enter in my breast,
And with me sup and stay;
Nor prove a hasty guest,
Who tarries but a day;
Upon my bosom fix thy throne,
And pull each fancy idol down.]

4 My sorrow thou canst see,
For thou dost read my heart;
It pineth after thee,
And yet from thee will start;
Reclaim thy roving child at last,
And fix my heart and bind it fast.

5 I would be near thy feet,
Or at thy bleeding side;
Feel how thy heart does beat,
And see its purple tide;
Trace all the wonders of thy death, And sing thy love in every breath.

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