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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray + +Author: Andrew Murray + +Release Date: September 27, 2008 [EBook #26709] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY *** + + + + +Produced by Free Elf, Jeannie Howse and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<div class="tr"> +<p class="cen" style="font-weight: bold;">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<br /> +<p class="noin" style="text-align: left;">Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. +For a complete list, please see the <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="#TN">end of this document</a>.</span></p> +<p class="noin">Click on the images to see a larger version.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h1>Lord, Teach Us<br /> +To Pray</h1> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h2>By Rev. Andrew Murray</h2> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h4>Philadelphia<br /> +Henry Altemus</h4> + +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h4>Copyright, 1896, by <span class="sc">Henry Altemus</span>.</h4> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span><br /> + +<h3>LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY</h3> + +<h4>OR</h4> + +<h3>THE ONLY TEACHER.</h3> +<br /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>Christian life, the thought and the faith of the Beloved +Master in His never-failing intercession becomes evermore +precious, and the hope of being <i>Like Christ</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>'Lord, teach us <i>to pray</i>.' Yes, <i>to pray</i>. 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>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?</p> + +<p>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 <i>pray</i>.</p> + +<p>'Lord, teach <i>us</i> to pray.' Yes, <i>us</i>, Lord. We have read in Thy +Word with what power Thy believing people of old used to pray, +and what mighty <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>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 <i>us</i> to pray so too. The promises are for +us, the powers and gifts of the heavenly world are for us. O +teach <i>us</i> 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 <i>us</i> to +pray.'</p> + +<p>'Lord, <i>teach</i> us to pray.' Yes, we feel the need now of being +<i>taught</i> 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>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 <i>in all who +trust Him for it</i> 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, <span class="sc">He</span> <i>teaches</i> to pray.</p> + +<p>'<i>Lord</i>, teach us to pray.' None can teach like Jesus, none but +Jesus; therefore we call on Him, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>'<span class="sc">Lord</span>, 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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.'</p> + +<h4 class="sc">'Lord, Teach Us To Pray.'</h4> + +<br /> +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<br /> + +<p>Blessed Lord! who ever livest to pray, Thou canst teach me too to +pray, me to live ever to pray. In <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Blessed Lord! Thou wilt not put to shame Thy scholar who trusts +Thee, nor, by Thy grace, would he Thee either. Amen.</p> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span><br /> + +<h3>'IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH;'</h3> + +<h4>OR</h4> + +<h3>THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS.</h3> + +<div class="block"><p>'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.'—<span class="sc">John</span> iv. 23, 24.</p></div> + +<br /> + +<p>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 +<i>seeks</i> worshippers: our worship satisfies His loving heart and +is a joy to Him. He seeks <i>true worshippers</i>, but finds many not +such as He would have them. True worship is that which is <i>in +spirit and truth</i>. <i>The Son has come</i> 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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>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, '<i>The hour is coming, and now is</i>:' it is +only in and through Him that the worship of God will be in spirit +and truth.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>'God is <i>a Spirit</i> and they that worship Him must worship Him <i>in +spirit</i> 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 <i>is Spirit</i>, we must worship <i>in spirit</i>. As God is, so His +worshipper.</p> + +<p>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, <i>the hour cometh</i> when neither in +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>'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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>forth +till He was glorified (<i>John i. 33, vii. 37, 38, xvi. 7</i>). 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 <i>received</i> the Holy +Spirit (<i>Acts ii. 33</i>), 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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>of the +Father</i> is only possible to those to whom the Spirit of the Son +has been given. The worship <i>in spirit</i> 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.</p> + +<p>And <i>in truth</i>. That does not only mean, <i>in sincerity</i>. 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, <i>full of</i> grace and <i>truth</i>.' 'The +law was given by Moses; grace and <i>truth came</i> by Jesus Christ.' +Jesus says, '<i>I am the truth</i> and the life.' <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>In the Old +Testament all was shadow and promise; Jesus brought and gives the +reality, <i>the substance</i>, 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 <i>in +truth</i>; actual living fellowship with God, a real correspondence +and harmony between the Father, who is a Spirit, and the child +praying in the spirit.</p> + +<p>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 +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>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 +<i>The Spirit of the Son</i>, dwelling within us, and revealing the +Father, this makes us true, spiritual worshippers.</p> + +<h4 class="sc">'Lord, Teach Us To Pray.'</h4> + +<br /> +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<br /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>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.</p> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span><br /> + +<h3>PRAY TO THY FATHER WHICH IS IN SECRET</h3> + +<h4>OR</h4> + +<h3>ALONE WITH GOD.</h3> + +<div class="block"><p>'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.'—<span class="sc">Matt.</span> vi. 6.</p></div> + +<br /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>thing is He has +to tell us of our tarrying there. Three times He uses the name of +Father: 'Pray to <i>thy Father</i>;' '<i>Thy Father</i> shall recompense +thee;' <i>Your Father</i> 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.</p> + +<p>First, '<i>Pray to thy Father which is in secret</i>.' 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>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. <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>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!</p> + +<p>'<i>And thy Father, which seeth in secret, will recompense thee.</i>' +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 <i>He is a rewarder</i> 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; <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>depend upon +Him: prayer to the Father cannot be vain; He will reward you +openly.</p> + +<p>Still further to confirm this faith in the Father-love of God, +Christ speaks a third word: '<i>Your Father knoweth what things ye +have need of before ye ask Him.</i>' 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: +<span class="sc">Father! Thou knowest</span> 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class="sc">the Father</span>: this be your highest +joy. To be assured that <span class="sc">the Father</span> will openly reward +the secret prayer, so that it cannot remain unblessed: this be +your strength day by day. And to know that <span class="sc">the Father</span> +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.</p> + +<h4 class="sc">'Lord, teach us to pray.'</h4> + +<br /> +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<br /> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span><br /> + +<h3>'AFTER THIS MANNER PRAY;'</h3> + +<h4>OR</h4> + +<h3>THE MODEL PRAYER.</h3> + +<div class="block"><p>'After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in +heaven.'—<span class="sc">Matt.</span> vi. 9.</p></div> +<br /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>'<i>Our Father which art in heaven!</i>' To appreciate this word of +adoration aright, I must remember that <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>the veil, in the secret +place of power where prayer always prevails.</p> + +<p>'<i>Hallowed be Thy name.</i>' 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, <i>Thy</i> name, <i>Thy</i> kingdom, +<i>Thy</i> will; then, give <i>us</i>, forgive <i>us</i>, lead <i>us</i>, deliver +<i>us</i>. 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 <span class="sc">He</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>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, <i>Thy</i> +Name, <i>Thy</i> Kingdom, <i>Thy</i> Will;—for this we look up and long.</p> + +<p>'<i>Hallowed be Thy name.</i>.' What name? This new name of Father. +The word <i>Holy</i> is the central word of the Old Testament; the +<i>name</i> 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>I will hallow</i> 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 <i>Holy</i> Spirit: it +is only when we yield ourselves to be led <i>of Him</i>, that the name +will be <i>hallowed</i> in our prayer and our lives. Let us learn the +prayer: 'Our Father, hallowed be Thy name.'</p> + +<p>'<i>Thy kingdom come.</i>' 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>'<i>Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.</i>' This petition is +too frequently applied alone to the <i>suffering</i> of the will of +God. In heaven God's will is <i>done</i>, 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.</p> + +<p>'<i>Give us this day our daily bread.</i>' 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>'<i>And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our +debtors.</i>' 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 <i>forgiven</i> expresses the heavenward, so <i>forgiving</i> 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.</p> + +<p>'<i>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>from the evil +one.</i>' 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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Thine</i> and the <i>Our</i>, are all one, and how the heart +that begins its prayer with the God-devoted <span class="sc">Thine</span>, will +have the power in faith to speak out the <span class="sc">Our</span> 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: '<span class="sc">For thine is the kingdom, +and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen.</span>' Son of the +Father, teach us to pray, '<span class="sc">Our Father.</span>'</p> + +<h4 class="sc">'Lord, teach us to pray.'</h4> + +<br /> +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<br /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>O Thou who art the only-begotten Son, teach us, we beseech Thee, +to pray, '<span class="sc">Our Father</span>.' 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.</p> + +<p>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, +<span class="fakesc">BE IN US</span>. Then shall we say aright, '<span class="sc">Our +Father!</span>' 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.</p> + +<p>Blessed Lord! we are Thy scholars, we trust Thee; do teach us to +pray, '<span class="sc">Our Father.</span>' Amen.</p> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<div class="tr"> +<p class="cen"><a name="TN" id="TN"></a>Typographical errors corrected in text:</p> +<br /> +Page 18: undertand replaced with understand<br /> +</div> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lord, Teach Us To Pray, by Andrew Murray + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY *** + +***** This file should be named 26709-h.htm or 26709-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/7/0/26709/ + +Produced by Free Elf, Jeannie Howse and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray + +Author: Andrew Murray + +Release Date: September 27, 2008 [EBook #26709] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY *** + + + + +Produced by Free Elf, Jeannie Howse and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + * * * * * + + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + | Transcriber's Note: | + | | + | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | + | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | + | | + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + + + * * * * * + + + + +Lord, Teach Us +To Pray + + +By Rev. Andrew Murray + + + + +Philadelphia +Henry Altemus + + + + +Copyright, 1896, by HENRY ALTEMUS. + + + + +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.' + + * * * * * + +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. + + + * * * * * + + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + | Typographical errors corrected in text: | + | | + | Page 18: undertand replaced with understand | + | | + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + + * * * * * + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lord, Teach Us To Pray, by Andrew Murray + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY *** + +***** This file should be named 26709.txt or 26709.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/7/0/26709/ + +Produced by Free Elf, Jeannie Howse and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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