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To be near unto God - pagina 321
69"THOU DOST NOT HEAR ME." True prayer calls for an answer from God. But not all prayer is genuine. There is a great difference between formal prayer of the lips and earnest outpouring of soul in supplication. Formal prayer however should not be underestimated. And It implies a power that ...
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les, the hope of eternal life dawns on the soul of the believer, and he also seeks to do away-but bj^ expecting nothing more from strength and powers, and by resigning everything into the hand of God. Even as he who is incurably ill, suffers dreadfully, is no more able to endure it, and ex ...
To be near unto God - pagina 325
God must lend help and assistance and of self. deliverance. And so it comes to appear at times that God is and exists merely for our sakes, for our benefit, to deliver us from trouble. But love Love for God in prayer is, that is different. first of all we are concerned with the things that glorif ...
To be near unto God - pagina 323
not the only cause of the failure to obtain an hearing of prayer. The most devout saints in Israel complained again and again that their prayer was not heard, which was a source of deep grief to their hearts; and their grief was proof that their prayers had been earnest and sincere. The Lama Saba ...
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he refuses to hear; even when the saintliest worshipper pours out his soul before him; even when his own well-beloved Son cries unto Him from the cross. This is the comfort of the cry from the cross for every soul that cries and gets no answer. Otherwise the silence of Grod might bring the soul t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 326
means to quicken tenderer love. How much the more is this true of him, who himself is love and who by putting a cloud between us and his Majesty, leads us up to the higher and far enjoyments of love.richer60"HIS WAYS ARE EVERLASTING" With the passing of anipther year another ...
To be near unto God - pagina 328
and presentlyin the future, whereby our short appears to be almost endlessly long and great. Even the single year that is past seemed so long, that only a few of its significant days are clearly remembered, and the new j^ear just begun makes an impression as though it could never end. Our ...
To be near unto God - pagina 330
and appointment always accompanies us. not what would smile on us this year, but what 77iust happen with us, for the accomplishment of his plan regarding us, determines what the 3'ear will bring. And why it must be so and not otherwise we can not understand now, but we will in the hereafter. He w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 327
never befrom sight. It is so wide that possibly explain the connection be-lostwe can nottween our time and God's eternity, though we know that there must be such a relation, andWhenwe die in Christ we there is. shall enter upon an eternity of everlasting ...
To be near unto God - pagina 329
and destiny be understood.Whatever the year never understood from itself. Before God, all of human life, with all its years, forms one plan, one end, one whole. This plan, of our life did not begin at birth but traces its lines back to the life of parents and grandparents. In the forward d ...
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