God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.
Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Prayer is faith passing into action.
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