The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 683

XLIII.

Prayer for and with Each Other. " Confess your faults one to another

and pray one

for another, that ye be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man

may

availeth

Let our

work

in

was

our prayers, omitting the

To speak

set.

intercession

Prayer for others latter is

is

all

tho

it

God even commands us

;

known unto God."

Yet

it

may contain

" in

prayer the breath of love

every-

make our

refined egoism even

be followed by thanksgiving; hence to prayer

sion, that in

saints,

grace.

quite different from prayer for ourselves.

indeed lawful

thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving to requests

of the

of the

betrays a lack of understanding concerning the Spirit of

The

v. 16.

touch once more the key of love wherein

last article

the article preceding that of prayer Spirit's

much."—/ames

may quench

is

added interces-

gently, yet effect-

remaining egoism, and lead us to the still holier prayer for King and His Kingdom. Christ prays for us, but the Bride must also pray for her heavenDavid's prayer for Solomon points beyond Sololy Bridegroom. mon to the Messiah " Give the King Thy judgments, O God " (Psalm Ixxii. i). In the Twentieth and Sixty-first Psalms the same thought is expressed. However, this is not a prayer for His Person (for as such He is glorified already), but for the coming of His Kingdom, for the extending of His Name to the ends of the earth, for the gathering in of the souls of His elect. ually,

the heavenly

:

In the Lord's Prayer, this most holy petition stands even in the

foreground; for

when we

dom come. Thy

will be done,"

pray,

or for others, but by love for

"

Hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingare inspired, not by love for self

we

Him who

is in

realize that the fulfilling of that prayer is

and ourselves;

still

it is

the love

heaven.

It is true,

most desirable

Jor God

we

for others

that stands here in the

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