To be near unto God - pagina 27
the house of the Lord all the days to be so vividly conscious of our fellowship with the living God that every morning, noon and night our thoughts go out to Him, that we hear his voice in the soul, that we are aware of his holy Presence within, experience his workings in our heart and in our con ...
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prophetic insight he anticipates the day when the Lord will hear the prayer of his people, and inspired by this thought he exclaims: "When the Lord will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer, then shall all the kings of the earth fear him." Thus the Psalmist was still i ...
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ence that nothing separates us any more from the Lord; that his arms are around us, and that as it were we cleave unto God. This is holy ground. It is not free from dangers. Misapprehension can interpret this figurative language literally, and in an unholy sense materialize our Spiritual God. Fal ...
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And that there are moments disregards our prayers, but which, praise his name, are succeeded by other moments in which He does regard them ? You believe in Christ, i^ou believe that his saying is true: *'He that hath seen Me, has seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" On ...
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in a childlike way, and with childlike intimacy to have fellowship with him. Let it be distinctly understood that this rests on sober reality. That this is not mere semblance but actual fact, That since God created us after his image. thus, in the face of a broad difference. Divine reality is exp ...
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we feel that our prayer obtains free access to the throne of the Almighty, then we understand from our own experience what the Psalmist wrote about the blessedness of the moment in which the Lord regarded again the prayer of the soul that was destitute. Is now the solution of this apparent contra ...
To be near unto God - pagina 35
thoughts have been exchanged. In this wise things have become realities which at one time were entirely unthinkable. And he who considers how quickly these evermore wonderful inventions have succeeded one another conjectures that still more can be expected and that playing with and listening to e ...
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the case with our prayer-life taken as Through foolish petitions we arrive at purified prayers. Through earthly prayers we come to those holier petitions which have been watered with the dew of heaven, and which scintillate with light from higher spheres than ours. But such is the case also with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 34
"HEARKEN UNTO ME, MY PEOPLE." "GIVE HEED TO ME, O LORD." At one time it was thought that sound came from the throat, that its power was limited, and that it could only make our word intelligible at short distances. No one could hear us, nor we him, from a greater distance than our voice could car ...
To be near unto God - pagina 36
our God who is the creator of all these means, and has them at his disposal, can from the Throne of his glory look down upon us and can whisper to us in the soul. And how, on the other hand also, when our voice, however weak, goes out to him in supplication, it can be heard by him. As regards the ...