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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lord, Teach Us To Pray, by Andrew Murray
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+Title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray
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+Author: Andrew Murray
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+Lord, Teach Us
+To Pray
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+By Rev. Andrew Murray
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+Philadelphia
+Henry Altemus
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+Copyright, 1896, by HENRY ALTEMUS.
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+LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY
+
+OR
+
+THE ONLY TEACHER.
+
+
+The disciples had been with Christ, and seen Him pray. They had
+learnt to understand something of the connection between His
+wondrous life in public, and His secret life of prayer. They had
+learnt to believe in Him as a Master in the art of prayer--none
+could pray like Him. And so they came to Him with the request,
+'Lord, teach us to pray.' And in after years they would have told
+us that there were few things more wonderful or blessed that He
+taught them than His lessons on prayer.
+
+And now still it comes to pass, as He is praying in a certain
+place, that disciples who see Him thus engaged feel the need of
+repeating the same request, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' As we grow
+in the Christian life, the thought and the faith of the Beloved
+Master in His never-failing intercession becomes evermore
+precious, and the hope of being _Like Christ_ in His intercession
+gains an attractiveness before unknown. And as we see Him pray,
+and remember that there is none who can pray like Him, and none
+who can teach like Him, we feel the petition of the disciples,
+'Lord, teach us to pray,' is just what we need. And as we think
+how all He is and has, how He Himself is our very own, how He is
+Himself our life, we feel assured that we have but to ask, and He
+will be delighted to take us up into closer fellowship with
+Himself, and teach us to pray even as He prays.
+
+Come, my brothers! Shall we not go to the Blessed Master and ask
+Him to enrol our names too anew in that school which He always
+keeps open for those who long to continue their studies in the
+Divine art of prayer and intercession? Yes, let us this very day
+say to the Master, as they did of old, 'Lord, teach us to pray.'
+As we meditate we shall find each word of the petition we bring
+to be full of meaning.
+
+'Lord, teach us _to pray_.' Yes, _to pray_. This is what we need
+to be taught. Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that
+the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest
+and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the
+Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have
+been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true
+religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and
+life. Not only for ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for
+the world, it is to prayer that God has given the right to take
+hold of Him and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises
+wait for their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory
+of God for its full revelation. And for this blessed work, how
+slothful and unfit we are. It is only the Spirit of God can
+enable us to do it aright. How speedily we are deceived into a
+resting in the form, while the power is wanting. Our early
+training, the teaching of the Church, the influence of habit, the
+stirring of the emotions--how easily these lead to prayer which
+has no spiritual power, and avails but little. True prayer, that
+takes hold of God's strength, that availeth much, to which the
+gates of heaven are really opened wide--who would not cry, Oh for
+some one to teach me thus to pray?
+
+Jesus has opened a school, in which He trains His redeemed ones,
+who specially desire it, to have power in prayer. Shall we not
+enter it with the petition, Lord! it is just this we need to be
+taught! O teach us to _pray_.
+
+'Lord, teach _us_ to pray.' Yes, _us_, Lord. We have read in Thy
+Word with what power Thy believing people of old used to pray,
+and what mighty wonders were done in answer to their prayers.
+And if this took place under the Old Covenant, in the time of
+preparation, how much more wilt Thou not now, in these days of
+fulfilment, give Thy people this sure sign of Thy presence in
+their midst. We have heard the promises given to Thine apostles
+of the power of prayer in Thy name, and have seen how gloriously
+they experienced their truth: we know for certain, they can
+become true to us too. We hear continually even in these days
+what glorious tokens of Thy power Thou dost still give to those
+who trust Thee fully. Lord! these all are men of like passions
+with ourselves; teach _us_ to pray so too. The promises are for
+us, the powers and gifts of the heavenly world are for us. O
+teach _us_ to pray so that we may receive abundantly. To us too
+Thou hast entrusted Thy work, on our prayer too the coming of Thy
+kingdom depends, in our prayer too Thou canst glorify Thy name;
+'Lord, teach us to pray.' Yes, us, Lord; we offer ourselves as
+learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach _us_ to
+pray.'
+
+'Lord, _teach_ us to pray.' Yes, we feel the need now of being
+_taught_ to pray. At first there is no work appears so simple;
+later on, none that is more difficult; and the confession is
+forced from us: We know not how to pray as we ought. It is true
+we have God's Word, with its clear and sure promises; but sin has
+so darkened our mind, that we know not always how to apply the
+Word. In spiritual things we do not always seek the most needful
+things, or fail in praying according to the law of the sanctuary.
+In temporal things we are still less able to avail ourselves of
+the wonderful liberty our Father has given us to ask what we
+need. And even when we know what to ask, how much there is still
+needed to make prayer acceptable. It must be to the glory of God,
+in full surrender to His will, in full assurance of faith, in the
+name of Jesus, and with a perseverance that, if need be, refuses
+to be denied. All this must be learned. It can only be learned in
+the school of much prayer, for practice makes perfect. Amid the
+painful consciousness of ignorance and unworthiness, in the
+struggle between believing and doubting, the heavenly art of
+effectual prayer is learnt. Because, even when we do not remember
+it, there is One, the Beginner and Finisher of faith and prayer,
+who watches over our praying, and sees to it that _in all who
+trust Him for it_ their education in the school of prayer shall
+be carried on to perfection. Let but the deep undertone of all
+our prayer be the teachableness that comes from a sense of
+ignorance, and from faith in Him as a perfect teacher, and we may
+be sure we shall be taught, we shall learn to pray in power. Yes,
+we may depend upon it, HE _teaches_ to pray.
+
+'_Lord_, teach us to pray.' None can teach like Jesus, none but
+Jesus; therefore we call on Him, 'LORD, teach us to pray.' A
+pupil needs a teacher, who knows his work, who has the gift of
+teaching, who in patience and love will descend to the pupil's
+needs. Blessed be God! Jesus is all this and much more. He knows
+what prayer is. It is Jesus, praying Himself, who teaches to
+pray. He knows what prayer is. He learned it amid the trials and
+tears of His earthly life. In heaven it is still His beloved
+work: His life there is prayer. Nothing delights Him more than to
+find those whom He can take with Him into the Father's presence,
+whom He can clothe with power to pray down God's blessing on
+those around them, whom He can train to be His fellow-workers in
+the intercession by which the kingdom is to be revealed on earth.
+He knows how to teach. Now by the urgency of felt need, then by
+the confidence with which joy inspires. Here by the teaching of
+the Word, there by the testimony of another believer who knows
+what it is to have prayer heard. By His Holy Spirit, He has
+access to our heart, and teaches us to pray by showing us the sin
+that hinders the prayer, or giving us the assurance that we
+please God. He teaches, by giving not only thoughts of what to
+ask or how to ask, but by breathing within us the very spirit of
+prayer, by living within us as the Great Intercessor. We may
+indeed and most joyfully say, 'Who teacheth like Him?' Jesus
+never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He
+did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of
+praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing
+how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is
+the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.
+
+What think you, my beloved fellow-disciples! would it not be just
+what we need, to ask the Master for a month to give us a course
+of special lessons on the art of prayer? As we meditate on the
+words He spake on earth, let us yield ourselves to His teaching
+in the fullest confidence that, with such a teacher, we shall
+make progress. Let us take time not only to meditate, but to
+pray, to tarry at the foot of the throne, and be trained to the
+work of intercession. Let us do so in the assurance that amidst
+our stammerings and fears He is carrying on His work most
+beautifully. He will breathe His own life, which is all prayer,
+into us. As He makes us partakers of His righteousness and His
+life, He will of His intercession too. As the members of His
+body, as a holy priesthood, we shall take part in His priestly
+work of pleading and prevailing with God for men. Yes, let us
+most joyfully say, ignorant and feeble though we be, 'Lord, teach
+us to pray.'
+
+'LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Blessed Lord! who ever livest to pray, Thou canst teach me too to
+pray, me to live ever to pray. In this Thou lovest to make me
+share Thy glory in heaven, that I should pray without ceasing,
+and ever stand as a priest in the presence of my God.
+
+Lord Jesus! I ask Thee this day to enrol my name among those who
+confess that they know not how to pray as they ought, and
+especially ask Thee for a course of teaching in prayer. Lord!
+teach me to tarry with Thee in the school, and give Thee time to
+train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful
+privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as
+the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I
+think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness
+and poverty of spirit.
+
+And fill me, Lord, with the confidence that with such a teacher
+as Thou art I shall learn to pray. In the assurance that I have
+as my teacher, Jesus, who is ever praying to the Father, and by
+His prayer rules the destinies of His Church and the world, I
+will not be afraid. As much as I need to know of the mysteries of
+the prayer-world, Thou wilt unfold for me. And when I may not
+know, Thou wilt teach me to be strong in faith, giving glory to
+God.
+
+Blessed Lord! Thou wilt not put to shame Thy scholar who trusts
+Thee, nor, by Thy grace, would he Thee either. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+'IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH;'
+
+OR
+
+THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS.
+
+
+    'The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
+    worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the
+    Father seek to be His worshippers. God is a Spirit: and they
+    that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.'--JOHN
+    iv. 23, 24.
+
+These words of Jesus to the woman of Samaria are His first
+recorded teaching on the subject of prayer. They give us some
+wonderful first glimpses into the world of prayer. The Father
+_seeks_ worshippers: our worship satisfies His loving heart and
+is a joy to Him. He seeks _true worshippers_, but finds many not
+such as He would have them. True worship is that which is _in
+spirit and truth_. _The Son has come_ to open the way for this
+worship in spirit and in truth, and teach it us. And so one of
+our first lessons in the school of prayer must be to understand
+what it is to pray in spirit and in truth, and to know how we can
+attain to it.
+
+To the woman of Samaria our Lord spoke of a threefold worship.
+There is, first, the ignorant worship of the Samaritans: 'Ye
+worship that which ye know not.' The second, the intelligent
+worship of the Jew, having the true knowledge of God: 'We worship
+that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.' And then the
+new, the spiritual worship which He Himself has come to
+introduce: 'The hour is coming, and is now, when the true
+worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth.' From
+the connection it is evident that the words 'in spirit and truth'
+do not mean, as is often thought, earnestly, from the heart, in
+sincerity. The Samaritans had the five books of Moses and some
+knowledge of God; there was doubtless more than one among them
+who honestly and earnestly sought God in prayer. The Jews had the
+true full revelation of God in His word, as thus far given; there
+were among them godly men, who called upon God with their whole
+heart. And yet not 'in spirit and truth,' in the full meaning of
+the words. Jesus says, '_The hour is coming, and now is_:' it is
+only in and through Him that the worship of God will be in spirit
+and truth.
+
+Among Christians one still finds the three classes of
+worshippers. Some who in their ignorance hardly know what they
+ask: they pray earnestly, and yet receive but little. Others
+there are, who have more correct knowledge, who try to pray with
+all their mind and heart, and often pray most earnestly, and yet
+do not attain to the full blessedness of worship in spirit and
+truth. It is into this third class we must ask our Lord Jesus to
+take us; we must be taught of Him how to worship in spirit and
+truth. This alone is spiritual worship; this makes us worshippers
+such as the Father seeks. In prayer everything will depend on our
+understanding well and practising the worship in spirit and
+truth.
+
+'God is _a Spirit_ and they that worship Him must worship Him _in
+spirit_ and truth.' The first thought suggested here by the
+Master is that there must be harmony between God and His
+worshippers; such as God is, must His worship be. This is
+according to a principle which prevails throughout the universe:
+we look for correspondence between an object and the organ to
+which it reveals or yields itself. The eye has an inner fitness
+for the light, the ear for sound. The man who would truly worship
+God, would find and know and possess and enjoy God, must be in
+harmony with Him, must have a capacity for receiving Him. Because
+God _is Spirit_, we must worship _in spirit_. As God is, so His
+worshipper.
+
+And what does this mean? The woman had asked our Lord whether
+Samaria or Jerusalem was the true place of worship. He answers
+that henceforth worship is no longer to be limited to a certain
+place: 'Woman, believe Me, _the hour cometh_ when neither in
+this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.' As
+God is Spirit, not bound by space or time, but in His infinite
+perfection always and everywhere the same, so His worship would
+henceforth no longer be confined by place or form, but spiritual
+as God Himself is spiritual. A lesson of deep importance. How
+much our Christianity suffers from this, that it is confined to
+certain times and places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in
+the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week
+or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he
+prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of
+his whole being. God is a spirit: He is the Everlasting and
+Unchangeable One; what He is, He is always and in truth. Our
+worship must even so be in spirit and truth: His worship must be
+the spirit of our life; our life must be worship in spirit as God
+is Spirit.
+
+'God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in
+spirit and truth.' The second thought that comes to us is that
+this worship in the spirit must come from God Himself. God is
+Spirit: He alone has Spirit to give. It was for this He sent His
+Son, to fit us for such spiritual worship, by giving us the Holy
+Spirit. It is of His own work that Jesus speaks when He says
+twice, 'The hour cometh,' and then adds, 'and is now.' He came to
+baptize with the Holy Spirit; the Spirit could not stream forth
+till He was glorified (_John i. 33, vii. 37, 38, xvi. 7_). It was
+when He had made an end of sin, and entering into the Holiest of
+all with His blood, had there on our behalf _received_ the Holy
+Spirit (_Acts ii. 33_), that He could send Him down to us as the
+Spirit of the Father. It was when Christ had redeemed us, and we
+in Him had received the position of children, that the Father
+sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts to cry, 'Abba,
+Father.' The worship in spirit is the worship of the Father in
+the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of Sonship.
+
+This is the reason why Jesus here uses the name of Father. We
+never find one of the Old Testament saints personally appropriate
+the name of child or call God his Father. The worship _of the
+Father_ is only possible to those to whom the Spirit of the Son
+has been given. The worship _in spirit_ is only possible to those
+to whom the Son has revealed the Father, and who have received
+the spirit of Sonship. It is only Christ who opens the way and
+teaches the worship in spirit.
+
+And _in truth_. That does not only mean, _in sincerity_. Nor does
+it only signify, in accordance with the truth of God's Word. The
+expression is one of deep and Divine meaning. Jesus is 'the
+only-begotten of the Father, _full of_ grace and _truth_.' 'The
+law was given by Moses; grace and _truth came_ by Jesus Christ.'
+Jesus says, '_I am the truth_ and the life.' In the Old
+Testament all was shadow and promise; Jesus brought and gives the
+reality, _the substance_, of things hoped for. In Him the
+blessings and powers of the eternal life are our actual
+possession and experience. Jesus is full of grace and truth; the
+Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth; through Him the grace that is
+in Jesus is ours indeed, and truth a positive communication out
+of the Divine life. And so worship in spirit is worship _in
+truth_; actual living fellowship with God, a real correspondence
+and harmony between the Father, who is a Spirit, and the child
+praying in the spirit.
+
+What Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, she could not at once
+understand. Pentecost was needed to reveal its full meaning. We
+are hardly prepared at our first entrance into the school of
+prayer to grasp such teaching. We shall understand it better
+later on. Let us only begin and take the lesson as He gives it.
+We are carnal and cannot bring God the worship He seeks. But
+Jesus came to give the Spirit: He has given Him to us. Let the
+disposition in which we set ourselves to pray be what Christ's
+words have taught us. Let there be the deep confession of our
+inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him; the
+childlike teachableness that waits on Him to instruct us; the
+simple faith that yields itself to the breathing of the Spirit.
+Above all, let us hold fast the blessed truth--we shall find
+that the Lord has more to say to us about it--that the knowledge
+of the Fatherhood of God, the revelation of His infinite
+Fatherliness in our hearts, the faith in the infinite love that
+gives us His Son and His Spirit to make us children, is indeed
+the secret of prayer in spirit and truth. This is the new and
+living way Christ opened up for us. To have Christ the Son, and
+_The Spirit of the Son_, dwelling within us, and revealing the
+Father, this makes us true, spiritual worshippers.
+
+'LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.'
+
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+
+Blessed Lord! I adore the love with which Thou didst teach a
+woman, who had refused Thee a cup of water, what the worship of
+God must be. I rejoice in the assurance that Thou wilt no less
+now instruct Thy disciple, who comes to Thee with a heart that
+longs to pray in spirit and in truth. O my Holy Master! do teach
+me this blessed secret.
+
+Teach me that the worship in spirit and truth is not of man, but
+only comes from Thee; that it is not only a thing of times and
+seasons, but the outflowing of a life in Thee. Teach me to draw
+near to God in prayer under the deep impression of my ignorance
+and my having nothing in myself to offer Him, and at the same
+time of the provision Thou, my Saviour, makest for the Spirit's
+breathing in my childlike stammerings. I do bless Thee that in
+Thee I am a child, and have a child's liberty of access; that in
+Thee I have the spirit of Sonship and of worship of truth. Teach
+me, above all, Blessed Son of the Father, how it is the
+revelation of the Father that gives confidence in prayer; and let
+the infinite Fatherliness of God's Heart be my joy and strength
+for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+PRAY TO THY FATHER WHICH IS IN SECRET
+
+OR
+
+ALONE WITH GOD.
+
+    'But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber,
+    and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
+    secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense
+    thee.'--MATT. vi. 6.
+
+
+After Jesus had called His first disciples He gave them their
+first public teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. He there
+expounded to them the kingdom of God, its laws and its life. In
+that kingdom God is not only King, but Father; He not only gives
+all, but is Himself all. In the knowledge and fellowship of Him
+alone is its blessedness. Hence it came as a matter of course
+that the revelation of prayer and the prayer-life was a part of
+His teaching concerning the New Kingdom He came to set up. Moses
+gave neither command nor regulation with regard to prayer: even
+the prophets say little directly of the duty of prayer; it is
+Christ who teaches to pray.
+
+And the first thing the Lord teaches His disciples is that they
+must have a secret place for prayer; every one must have some
+solitary spot where he can be alone with his God. Every teacher
+must have a schoolroom. We have learnt to know and accept Jesus
+as our only teacher in the school of prayer. He has already
+taught us at Samaria that worship is no longer confined to times
+and places; that worship, spiritual true worship, is a thing of
+the spirit and the life; the whole man must in his whole life be
+worship in spirit and truth. And yet He wants each one to choose
+for himself the fixed spot where He can daily meet him. That
+inner chamber, that solitary place, is Jesus' schoolroom. That
+spot may be anywhere; that spot may change from day to day if we
+have to change our abode; but that secret place there must be,
+with the quiet time in which the pupil places himself in the
+Master's presence, to be by Him prepared to worship the Father.
+There alone, but there most surely, Jesus comes to us to teach us
+to pray.
+
+A teacher is always anxious that his schoolroom should be bright
+and attractive, filled with the light and air of heaven, a place
+where pupils long to come, and love to stay. In His first words
+on prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus seeks to set the
+inner chamber before us in its most attractive light. If we
+listen carefully, we soon notice what the chief thing is He has
+to tell us of our tarrying there. Three times He uses the name of
+Father: 'Pray to _thy Father_;' '_Thy Father_ shall recompense
+thee;' _Your Father_ knoweth what things ye have need of.' The
+first thing in closet-prayer is: I must meet my Father. The light
+that shines in the closet must be: the light of the Father's
+countenance. The fresh air from heaven with which Jesus would
+have filled the atmosphere in which I am to breathe and pray, is:
+God's Father-love, God's infinite Fatherliness. Thus each thought
+or petition we breathe out will be simple, hearty, childlike
+trust in the Father. This is how the Master teaches us to pray:
+He brings us into the Father's living presence. What we pray
+there must avail. Let us listen carefully to hear what the Lord
+has to say to us.
+
+First, '_Pray to thy Father which is in secret_.' God is a God
+who hides Himself to the carnal eye. As long as in our worship of
+God we are chiefly occupied with our own thoughts and exercises,
+we shall not meet Him who is a Spirit, the unseen One. But to the
+man who withdraws himself from all that is of the world and man,
+and prepares to wait upon God alone, the Father will reveal
+Himself. As he forsakes and gives up and shuts out the world, and
+the life of the world, and surrenders himself to be led of Christ
+into the secret of God's presence, the light of the Father's love
+will rise upon him. The secrecy of the inner chamber and the
+closed door, the entire separation from all around us, is an
+image of, and so a help to, that inner spiritual sanctuary, the
+secret of God's tabernacle, within the veil, where our spirit
+truly comes into contact with the Invisible One. And so we are
+taught, at the very outset of our search after the secret of
+effectual prayer, to remember that it is in the inner chamber,
+where we are alone with the Father, that we shall learn to pray
+aright. The Father is in secret: in these words Jesus teaches us
+where He is waiting us, where He is always to be found.
+Christians often complain that private prayer is not what it
+should be. They feel weak and sinful, the heart is cold and dark;
+it is as if they have so little to pray, and in that little no
+faith or joy. They are discouraged and kept from prayer by the
+thought that they cannot come to the Father as they ought or as
+they wish. Child of God! listen to your Teacher. He tells you
+that when you go to private prayer your first thought must be:
+The Father is in secret, the Father waits me there. Just because
+your heart is cold and prayerless, get you into the presence of
+the loving Father. As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord
+pitieth you. Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring
+God, but of how much He wants to give you. Just place yourself
+before, and look up into, His face; think of His love, His
+wonderful, tender, pitying love. Just tell Him how sinful and
+cold and dark all is: it is the Father's loving heart will give
+light and warmth to yours. O do what Jesus says: Just shut the
+door, and pray to thy Father, which is in secret. Is it not
+wonderful? to be able to go alone with God, the infinite God. And
+then to look up and say: My Father!
+
+'_And thy Father, which seeth in secret, will recompense thee._'
+Here Jesus assures us that secret prayer cannot be fruitless: its
+blessing will show itself in our life. We have but in secret,
+alone with God, to entrust our life before men to Him; He will
+reward us openly; He will see to it that the answer to prayer be
+made manifest in His blessing upon us. Our Lord would thus teach
+us that as infinite Fatherliness and Faithfulness is that with
+which God meets us in secret, so on our part there should be the
+childlike simplicity of faith, the confidence that our prayer
+does bring down a blessing. 'He that cometh to God must believe
+that _He is a rewarder_ of them that seek Him.' Not on the strong
+or the fervent feeling with which I pray does the blessing of the
+closet depend, but upon the love and the power of the Father to
+whom I there entrust my needs. And therefore the Master has but
+one desire: Remember your Father is, and sees and hears in
+secret; go there and stay there, and go again from there in the
+confidence: He will recompense. Trust Him for it; depend upon
+Him: prayer to the Father cannot be vain; He will reward you
+openly.
+
+Still further to confirm this faith in the Father-love of God,
+Christ speaks a third word: '_Your Father knoweth what things ye
+have need of before ye ask Him._' At first sight it might appear
+as if this thought made prayer less needful: God knows far better
+than we what we need. But as we get a deeper insight into what
+prayer really is, this truth will help much to strengthen our
+faith. It will teach us that we do not need, as the heathen, with
+the multitude and urgency of our words, to compel an unwilling
+God to listen to us. It will lead to a holy thoughtfulness and
+silence in prayer as it suggests the question: Does my Father
+really know that I need this? It will, when once we have been led
+by the Spirit to the certainty that our request is indeed
+something that, according to the Word, we do need for God's
+glory, give us wonderful confidence to say, My Father knows I
+need it and must have it. And if there be any delay in the
+answer, it will teach us in quiet perseverance to hold on:
+FATHER! THOU KNOWEST I need it. O the blessed liberty and
+simplicity of a child that Christ our Teacher would fain
+cultivate in us, as we draw near to God: let us look up to the
+Father until His Spirit works it in us. Let us sometimes in our
+prayers, when we are in danger of being so occupied with our
+fervent, urgent petitions, as to forget that the Father knows
+and hears, let us hold still and just quietly say: My Father
+sees, my Father hears, my Father knows; it will help our faith to
+take the answer, and to say: We know that we have the petitions
+we have asked of Him.
+
+And now, all ye who have anew entered the school of Christ to be
+taught to pray, take these lessons, practise them, and trust Him
+to perfect you in them. Dwell much in the inner chamber, with the
+door shut--shut in from men, shut up with God; it is there the
+Father waits you, it is there Jesus will teach you to pray. To be
+alone in secret with THE FATHER: this be your highest joy. To be
+assured that THE FATHER will openly reward the secret prayer, so
+that it cannot remain unblessed: this be your strength day by
+day. And to know that THE FATHER knows that you need what you
+ask, this be your liberty to bring every need, in the assurance
+that your God will supply it according to His riches in glory in
+Christ Jesus.
+
+'LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Blessed Saviour! with my whole heart I do bless Thee for the
+appointment of the inner chamber, as the school where Thou
+meetest each of Thy pupils alone, and revealest to him the
+Father. O my Lord! strengthen my faith so in the Father's tender
+love and kindness, that as often as I feel sinful or troubled,
+the first instinctive thought may be to go where I know the
+Father waits me, and where prayer never can go unblessed. Let the
+thought that He knows my need before I ask, bring me, in great
+restfulness of faith, to trust that He will give what His child
+requires. O let the place of secret prayer become to me the most
+beloved spot on earth.
+
+And, Lord! hear me as I pray that Thou wouldest everywhere bless
+the closets of Thy believing people. Let Thy wonderful revelation
+of a Father's tenderness free all young Christians from every
+thought of secret prayer as a duty or a burden, and lead them to
+regard it as the highest privilege of their life, a joy and a
+blessing. Bring back all who are discouraged, because they cannot
+find aught to bring Thee in prayer. O give them to understand
+that they have only to come with their emptiness to Him who has
+all to give, and delights to do it. Not, what they have to bring
+the Father, but what the Father waits to give them, be their one
+thought.
+
+And bless especially the inner chamber of all Thy servants who
+are working for Thee, as the place where God's truth and God's
+grace is revealed to them, where they are daily anointed with
+fresh oil, where their strength is renewed, and the blessings are
+received in faith, with which they are to bless their fellow-men.
+Lord, draw us all in the closet nearer to Thyself and the Father.
+Amen.
+
+
+
+
+'AFTER THIS MANNER PRAY;'
+
+OR
+
+THE MODEL PRAYER.
+
+    'After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
+    heaven.'--MATT. vi. 9.
+
+
+Every teacher knows the power of example. He not only tells the
+child what to do and how to do it, but shows him how it really
+can be done. In condescension to our weakness, our Heavenly
+Teacher has given us the very words we are to take with us as we
+draw near to our Father. We have in them a form of prayer in
+which there breathe the freshness and fulness of the Eternal
+Life. So simple that the child can lisp it, so divinely rich that
+it comprehends all that God can give. A form of prayer that
+becomes the model and inspiration for all other prayer, and yet
+always draws us back to itself as the deepest utterance of our
+souls before our God.
+
+'_Our Father which art in heaven!_' To appreciate this word of
+adoration aright, I must remember that none of the saints had in
+Scripture ever ventured to address God as their Father. The
+invocation places us at once in the centre of the wonderful
+revelation the Son came to make of His Father as our Father too.
+It comprehends the mystery of redemption--Christ delivering us
+from the curse that we might become the children of God. The
+mystery of regeneration--the Spirit in the new birth giving us
+the new life. And the mystery of faith--ere yet the redemption is
+accomplished or understood, the word is given on the lips of the
+disciples to prepare them for the blessed experience still to
+come. The words are the key to the whole prayer, to all prayer.
+It takes time, it takes life to study them; it will take eternity
+to understand them fully. The knowledge of God's Father-love is
+the first and simplest, but also the last and highest lesson in
+the school of prayer. It is in the personal relation to the
+living God, and the personal conscious fellowship of love with
+Himself, that prayer begins. It is in the knowledge of God's
+Fatherliness, revealed by the Holy Spirit, that the power of
+prayer will be found to root and grow. In the infinite tenderness
+and pity and patience of the infinite Father, in His loving
+readiness to hear and to help, the life of prayer has its joy. O
+let us take time, until the Spirit has made these words to us
+spirit and truth, filling heart and life: 'Our Father which art
+in heaven.' Then we are indeed within the veil, in the secret
+place of power where prayer always prevails.
+
+'_Hallowed be Thy name._' There is something here that strikes us
+at once. While we ordinarily first bring our own needs to God in
+prayer, and then think of what belongs to God and His interests,
+the Master reverses the order. First, _Thy_ name, _Thy_ kingdom,
+_Thy_ will; then, give _us_, forgive _us_, lead _us_, deliver
+_us_. The lesson is of more importance than we think. In true
+worship the Father must be first, must be all. The sooner I learn
+to forget myself in the desire that HE may be glorified, the
+richer will the blessing be that prayer will bring to myself. No
+one ever loses by what he sacrifices for the Father.
+
+This must influence all our prayer. There are two sorts of
+prayer: personal and intercessory. The latter ordinarily occupies
+the lesser part of our time and energy. This may not be. Christ
+has opened the school of prayer specially to train intercessors
+for the great work of bringing down, by their faith and prayer,
+the blessings of His work and love on the world around. There can
+be no deep growth in prayer unless this be made our aim. The
+little child may ask of the father only what it needs for itself;
+and yet it soon learns to say, Give some for sister too. But the
+grown-up son, who only lives for the father's interest and takes
+charge of the father's business, asks more largely, and gets all
+that is asked. And Jesus would train us to the blessed life of
+consecration and service, in which our interests are all
+subordinate to the Name, and the Kingdom, and the Will of the
+Father. O let us live for this, and let, on each act of
+adoration, Our Father! there follow in the same breath, _Thy_
+Name, _Thy_ Kingdom, _Thy_ Will;--for this we look up and long.
+
+'_Hallowed be Thy name._.' What name? This new name of Father.
+The word _Holy_ is the central word of the Old Testament; the
+_name_ Father of the New. In this name of Love all the holiness
+and glory of God are now to be revealed. And how is the name to
+be hallowed? By God Himself: '_I will hallow_ My great name which
+ye have profaned.' Our prayer must be that in ourselves, in all
+God's children, in presence of the world, God Himself would
+reveal the holiness, the Divine power, the hidden glory of the
+name of Father. The Spirit of the Father is the _Holy_ Spirit: it
+is only when we yield ourselves to be led _of Him_, that the name
+will be _hallowed_ in our prayer and our lives. Let us learn the
+prayer: 'Our Father, hallowed be Thy name.'
+
+'_Thy kingdom come._' The Father is a King and has a kingdom. The
+son and heir of a king has no higher ambition than the glory of
+his father's kingdom. In time of war or danger this becomes his
+passion; he can think of nothing else. The children of the Father
+are here in the enemy's territory, where the kingdom, which is
+in heaven, is not yet fully manifested. What more natural than
+that, when they learn to hallow the Father-name, they should long
+and cry with deep enthusiasm: 'Thy kingdom come.' The coming of
+the kingdom is the one great event on which the revelation of the
+Father's glory, the blessedness of His children, the salvation of
+the world depends. On our prayers too the coming of the kingdom
+waits. Shall we not join in the deep longing cry of the redeemed:
+'Thy kingdom come'? Let us learn it in the school of Jesus.
+
+'_Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth._' This petition is
+too frequently applied alone to the _suffering_ of the will of
+God. In heaven God's will is _done_, and the Master teaches the
+child to ask that the will may be done on earth just as in
+heaven: in the spirit of adoring submission and ready obedience.
+Because the will of God is the glory of heaven, the doing of it
+is the blessedness of heaven. As the will is done, the kingdom of
+heaven comes into the heart. And wherever faith has accepted the
+Father's love, obedience accepts the Father's will. The surrender
+to, and the prayer for a life of heaven-like obedience, is the
+spirit of childlike prayer.
+
+'_Give us this day our daily bread._' When first the child has
+yielded himself to the Father in the care for His Name, His
+Kingdom, and His Will, he has full liberty to ask for his daily
+bread. A master cares for the food of his servant, a general of
+his soldiers, a father of his child. And will not the Father in
+heaven care for the child who has in prayer given himself up to
+His interests? We may indeed in full confidence say: Father, I
+live for Thy honor and Thy work; I know Thou carest for me.
+Consecration to God and His will gives wonderful liberty in
+prayer for temporal things: the whole earthly life is given to
+the Father's loving care.
+
+'_And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
+debtors._' As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness
+for the soul. And the provision for the one is as sure as for the
+other. We are children, but sinners too; our right of access to
+the Father's presence we owe to the precious blood and the
+forgiveness it has won for us. Let us beware of the prayer for
+forgiveness becoming a formality: only what is really confessed
+is really forgiven. Let us in faith accept the forgiveness as
+promised: as a spiritual reality, an actual transaction between
+God and us, it is the entrance into all the Father's love and all
+the privileges of children. Such forgiveness, as a living
+experience, is impossible without a forgiving spirit to others:
+as _forgiven_ expresses the heavenward, so _forgiving_ the
+earthward, relation of God's child. In each prayer to the Father
+I must be able to say that I know of no one whom I do not
+heartily love.
+
+'_And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil
+one._' Our daily bread, the pardon of our sins, and then our
+being kept from all sin and the power of the evil one, in these
+three petitions all our personal need is comprehended. The prayer
+for bread and pardon must be accompanied by the surrender to live
+in all things in holy obedience to the Father's will, and the
+believing prayer in everything to be kept by the power of the
+indwelling Spirit from the power of the evil one.
+
+Children of God! it is thus Jesus would have us to pray to the
+Father in heaven. O let His Name, and Kingdom, and Will, have the
+first place in our love; His providing, and pardoning, and
+keeping love will be our sure portion. So the prayer will lead us
+up to the true child-life: the Father all to the child, the
+Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and
+child, the _Thine_ and the _Our_, are all one, and how the heart
+that begins its prayer with the God-devoted THINE, will have the
+power in faith to speak out the OUR too. Such prayer will,
+indeed, be the fellowship and interchange of love, always
+bringing us back in trust and worship to Him who is not only the
+Beginning but the End: 'FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER,
+AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER, AMEN.' Son of the Father, teach us to
+pray, 'OUR FATHER.'
+
+'LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+O Thou who art the only-begotten Son, teach us, we beseech Thee,
+to pray, 'OUR FATHER.' We thank Thee, Lord, for these Living
+Blessed Words which Thou hast given us. We thank Thee for the
+millions who in them have learnt to know and worship the Father,
+and for what they have been to us. Lord! it is as if we needed
+days and weeks in Thy school with each separate petition; so deep
+and full are they. But we look to Thee to lead us deeper into
+their meaning: do it, we pray Thee, for Thy Name's sake; Thy name
+is Son of the Father.
+
+Lord! Thou didst once say: 'No man knoweth the Father save the
+Son, and he to whom the Son willeth to reveal Him.' And again: 'I
+made known unto them Thy name, and will make it known, that the
+love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them.' Lord Jesus!
+reveal to us the Father. Let His name, His infinite Father-love,
+the love with which He loved Thee, according to Thy prayer, BE IN
+US. Then shall we say aright, 'OUR FATHER!' Then shall we
+apprehend Thy teaching, and the first spontaneous breathing of
+our heart will be: 'Our Father, Thy Name, Thy Kingdom, Thy Will.'
+And we shall bring our needs and our sins and our temptations to
+Him in the confidence that the love of such a Father cares for
+all.
+
+Blessed Lord! we are Thy scholars, we trust Thee; do teach us to
+pray, 'OUR FATHER.' Amen.
+
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