The following is part 6 from a blog series based on R.A. Torrey’s classicThe Power of Prayer. R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) was an American evangelist, professor, pastor, and author. He is one of the three editors of The Fundamentals, an early 20th century defense of orthodox Protestant beliefs. Find more from R.A. Torrey at the BLB.
Ye have not, because ye ask not (James 4:2 KJV).
What, specifically, will prayer do? We have been dealing in generalities; let us come down to the definite and specific. The Word of God very plainly answers the question.
In the first place, prayer will promote our personal piety, our individual holiness, our individual growth into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as almost nothing else, as nothing else but the study of the Word of God. These two things, prayer and study of the Word of God, always go hand-in-hand, for there is no true prayer without study of the Word of God, and there is no true study of the Word of God without prayer.
Other things being equal, your growth and mine into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be in exact proportion to the time and to the heart we put into prayer. Please note exactly what I say: “Your growth and mine into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be in exact proportion to the time and to the heart we put into prayer.” I put it in that way because there are many who put a great deal of time but so little heart into their praying that they do very little praying in the long time they spend at it.
On the other hand, there are others who, perhaps, may not put so much time into praying but put so much heart into praying that they accomplish vastly more by their praying in a short time than the others accomplish by praying in a long time. God Himself has told us in Jeremiah 29: 13: “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
We are told in Ephesians 1:3, that God “hash blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in -Christ.” That is to say, Jesus Christ by His atoning death and by His resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father has obtained for every believer in Jesus Christ every possible spiritual blessing. There is no spiritual blessing that any believer enjoys that may not be yours. It belongs to you now; Christ purchased it by His atoning death and God has provided it in Him. It is there for you; but it is your part to claim it, to put out your hand and take it. God’s appointed way for claiming blessings by putting out your hand and appropriating to yourself the blessings that are procured for you by the atoning death of Jesus Christ is by prayer. Prayer is the hand that takes to ourselves the blessings that God has already provided in His Son.
Go through your Bible and you will find it definitely stated that every conceivable spiritual blessing is obtained by prayer. For example, it is in answer to prayer, as we learn from Psalm 139:23, 24, that God searches us and knows our hearts, tries us and knows our thoughts, brings to light the sin that there is in us and delivers us from it. It is in answer to prayer, as we learn from Psalm 19:12,13, that we are cleansed from secret faults and that God keeps us back from presumptuous sins. It is in answer to prayer, as we learn from the 14th verse of the same Psalm, that the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart are made acceptable in God’s sight. It is in answer to prayer, as we learn from Psalm 25:4,5, that God shows us His ways, teaches us His path, and guides us in His truth. It is in answer to prayer, as we learn from the prayer our Lord Himself taught us, that we are kept from temptation and delivered from the power of the wicked one (Matthew 6:13). It is in answer to prayer, as we learn from Luke 11:13, that God gives us His Holy Spirit. And so we might go on through the whole catalog of spiritual blessings and find that every one is obtained by asking for it. Indeed, our Lord Himself has said in Matthew 7:11: “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him.”
One of the most instructive and suggestive passages in the entire Bible as showing the mighty power of prayer to transform us into the likeness of our Lord Jesus Himself, is found in 2 Corinthians 3:18: “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass [The English Revision reads better, “reflecting as a mirror”] the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” The thought is that the Lord is the sun, you and I are mirrors, and just as a mischievous boy on a bright sunshiny day will catch the rays of the sun in a piece of broken looking-glass and reflect them into your eyes and mine with almost blinding power, so we, as mirrors, when we commune with God, catch the rays of His moral glory and reflect them out on the world “from glory to glory.” That is, each time we commune with Him we catch something new of His glory and reflect it out on the world.
I’m sure you remember the story of Moses, how he went up into the mount and tarried about forty days with God, gazing on that ineffable glory, and caught so much of the glory in his own face that when he came down from the mount, though he himself did not know it, his face so shone that he had to draw a veil over it to hide the blinding glory of it from his fellow Israelites.
Even so we, going up into the mount of prayer, away from the world, alone with God, catch the rays of His glory, so that when we come down to other people, it is not so much our faces that shine (though I do believe that sometimes even our faces shine), but our characters, with the glory that we have been beholding. We then reflect out on the world the moral glory of God from “glory to glory,” each new time of communion with Him catching something new of His glory to reflect out on the world. Oh, here is the secret of becoming much like God by remaining long alone with God. If you won’t stay long with Him, you won’t be much like Him.
One of the most remarkable men in Scotland’s history was John Welch, son-in-law of John Knox, the great Scotch reformer; he is as well-known as his famous father-in-law, but in some respects a far more remarkable man than John Knox himself. Most people have the idea that it was John Knox who prayed, “Give me Scotland or I die.” It was not, it was John Welch, his son-in-law. John Welch put it on record before he died that he counted that day ill-spent that he did not put seven or eight hours into secret prayer. When John Welch came to die, an old Scotchman who had known him from his boyhood said of him, “John Welch was a type of Christ.” Of course, that was an inaccurate use of language, but what the old Scotchman meant was, that Jesus Christ had stamped the impress of His character on John Welch. When had Jesus Christ done it? In those seven or eight hours of daily communion with Himself. I do not suppose that God has called many of us, if any of us, to put seven or eight hours a day into prayer, but I am confident God has called most of us, if not every one of us, to put more time into prayer than we now do. That is one of the great secrets of holiness, indeed, the only way in which we can become really holy and continue holy.
Some years ago we often sang a hymn, “Take Time to Be Holy.” I wish we sang it more in these days. It takes time to be holy, one cannot be holy in a hurry, and much of the time that it takes to be holy must go into secret prayer. Some people express surprise that professing Christians today are so little like their Lord, but when I stop to think how little time the average Christian today puts into secret prayer the thing that astonished me is, not that we are so little like the Lord, but that we are as much like the Lord as we are, when we take so little time for secret prayer.
Andybob says
August 2, 2012 at 12:39 amBrethren,
When I first got saved (born again John 3:3-5) I had only known about the memorized prayers I had learned in the Chatholic church I attended i.e. the Lord’s Prayer, etc.
That was three decades ago and now I have learned to pray or talk to our Father in many different ways.
When someone falls in love they want to spend time with that person to get to know them. Prayer is spending time with our Father and His son Jesus.
When I pray in my bedroom I pray outloud because this helps me to open up to God. Do you pray out loud?
I do pray silently at times too however.
A part of spending time with God comes in the form of prayer, and singing songs to him either out loud or silently in my heart. Do you do that too?
I recently read a Bible verse on Christian television that read, “Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms” James 5:13
I encorage each one of you to pray for your Pastors, teachers, Sunday school teachers, your unsaved relatives, and your husbands and wives.
Be sure first to show reverence to God and Jesus and thank God for all he has done for you and those around you.
Let’s continually fall in love with our God, Yahweh and with his wonderful Son Jesus Christ.
Much Agape love to each of you,
Your brother and servant,
Andybob
Jay says
August 2, 2012 at 1:11 amHi,
This reading opened up my eyes more about prayer and the Word of God. How very important it is to have the constant flowing of communion with God unceasingly that it help us to be more like Himself. And to have those blessings that He freely gives us.
I have to admit, I slacked in devoting time to prayer and reading of the Word, which I regret. But I really what to thank the person who has posted this article for us who are truth-seekers in Jesus Christ. God bless you!
Let me get back in the groove of things!
Sincerely,
Jay
Donna Sharp says
August 2, 2012 at 4:11 amAndybob,I talk or pray to Father God aloud all the time. I have been led by the Holy Spirit to turn off my radio and turn onto him, praying, talking, singing, asking, thanking him for everything when in the car, walking down the road, fixing dinner, taking a bath, heading to work, waking up, laying down, all day everyday. I have prayed to be like Christ, my Yeshua, My Daddy, YHWH, he said we are to be his body and his children.
My husband and I prayed for the Spirit of the Lord that rested upon our Savior to be upon us. Isaiah 11:1-4 and it changed everything in our life especially our hearts. It says “Then a shoot will spring up from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from its roots will bear fruit. And the Spirit of Lord will rest on Him, The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, The Spirit of Council and Strength, The Spirit of Knowledge and the Fear of LORD. And He will delight in the Fear of the LORD. And He will not Jodge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear; but with rightousness He will judge the poor, and decided with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
As we started to let him change us from the inside out, as we let him refine our hearts like you refine gold at 1800 degress I might add, he also change our minds, he has begun to show us the power of our prayers. We have recently began to see the results of prayers and the blessings, the changes, and the miracles they do. In our lives but those around us also.
I personally came from a very dark place and by my Saviors Grace and Mercy he called me, met me where I was, didn’t give up on me, showed me Love, Mercy, and Compassion. It is true as stated above in Jeremiah 29: 13: “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” .
I am walking talking proof of that I assure you !
May the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, Bless us all and bring us into the promised land to be our God and live amoung us. Amen
Andybob says
August 2, 2012 at 9:19 amBeautiful Sister Donna, BEATIFUL!
As you wrote your testimony and as I read it this morning in my time with my Father (Yahweh) I could see the beautiful heart He is cultivating in you and your loved ones!
In our church services we sing a love song to Him who first loved us. Hear are the words:
I’m love I’m in love with the King of Kings, and the King is in love with me.
I’m in love I’m with the Holy one who is given His all for me.
You’re calling me to realms of love to share all eternity!
I’m love I’m in love with the King of Kings and the King is in love with me!
My heart and spirit just love that song because I connect with Him when we sing it!
It reminds me of the Song of Solomon which to some is just a book about romance and marriage but to me it is much, much more.
For in it I see a Picture of Christ and His Church as Ephesians 5:23 describes, and we see the bride learning to love Him more and more as each chapter of the book progresses because she is spending time with Him who her soul loves and falling deeper in love with Him.
For example:
Sgs 1:2 I see a picture of a brand new Christian convert who excitedly prays, “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love is better than wine.”
Sgs 1:4 I see a Christian praying to the Lord to be drawn by Him and the Christian acknowledging the fact that they are black with sin in their life.
“Draw me, we will run after thee:…I am black, but comely”
Sgs 2:5 I see how the Christian is falling more in love with the King of Kings when she expresses, “…for I am sick of love.”
Sgs 2:8 I see the Christian getting excited at the sound of the Lord’s voice and knowing that He is coming soon, “The voice of my beloved! Behold, He cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.”
Sgs 2:10 I see the Lord calling out to the Christian to come and spend time with Him as He declares to His beloved, “My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
Sgs 2:16 I see as the Christian spends more and more time with the Lord in prayer, reading the Word, and listening to sermons her confidence in Him grows as she excitedly declares, “My beloved is mine, and I am His!”
Sgs 3:1-4 I see a picture of the Christian in a fiery trial, learning to keep seeking, keep asking and keep knocking on the doors of heaven. I see the Christian learning to seek Him with her whole heart until she finds him when we read,
“By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.”
Scarcely had I passed by them, When I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go, Until I had brought him to the house of my mother, And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”
Sgs 5:2-6 I see a picture of the Christian being called to by our Lord to wake up and shake sleep like the parable of the ten virgins in Matt 25 because our Lord longs to spend time with us but we are to sleepy and complacent with the cares of life and do not immediately respond when He calls to us.
“I sleep, but my heart is awake; It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, “Open for me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one;…
I arose to open for my beloved, And my hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.
I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.”
Sgs 6:1-2,5 I see a picture of Christians continuing to pursue their Lord and then she realizes and remembers where to find Him, in prayer, in His Word and in fellowship with the rest of the saints of God, that is, in His garden. She finds Him and begins to show her great love for Him in prayer and He is greatly affected by her maturing love and requests she turn her eyes away because He is overcome with great emotion.
“Where has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned aside, That we may seek him with you?
My beloved has gone to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed his flock in the gardens, And to gather lilies.
Turn your eyes away from me, For they have overcome me”
Sgs 7:10-12 Here I see the Christian more confident then ever in the love for her Lord when she declares, “I am my beloved’s, And his desire is toward me.”
She is so confident in His love for her she initiates spending time together with Him. “Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.”
Sgs 8:6 I see a picture of the mature Christian who has grown into a bride without spot or wrinkle or any such thing (Eph 5:7). She is so totally in love with her Lord she boldly request to be placed as a seal on His heart and declares her love is as strong a death and that she loves Him with a deep fiery love!
“Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, A most vehement flame.”
Prayer is something we are commanded to do as Christians because it will help us mature in our love relationship with our Father and His son.
As we fall in love with Him who first loved us and gave His life for us we go from having a selfish love immature love to a love for Him that is mature as that of a bride.
Thank you for sharing Sister Donna,
Much Agape Love to you and your brethren!
Your servant and brother,
Andybob
Donna Sharp says
August 2, 2012 at 5:13 pm🙂 Together in one Spirit, one God, One Savior, and One Kingdom of Love !!!
laura mary says
August 16, 2012 at 9:00 amandy bob, that was profound and so beautiful. God bless you brother. i am so blessed right now.
I love the brethren xxxxx
Mike nCombs says
August 2, 2012 at 5:45 amPrayer is my time of intimate talking with my ABBA FATHER in HIS Throne Room, made possible by the shed blood of Jesus on the cross of Calvary. This is precious time where we make all things known, even if they don’t take Him by surprise. He just wants us to spend time with Him. If you want answers to your prayers, go from sporadic to consistent and see the blessed difference it will make in one’s walk with Him, your ABBA FATHER (DADDY). Jesus, The Lover of My Soul, Jesus I’ll Never Let YOU Go.
Jerry S. says
August 2, 2012 at 9:42 amNot to say we shouldn’t take time to bend the knee into a posture of submission, but I’ve learned thru Oswald Chambers’ writings that physical positioning may not be as important a factor as we may think, at least for me. Mr. Chambers point, as I understand it, is that prayer is communion with GOD and as we walk thru the activities of each of our days as believers (“It is there for you; but it is your part to claim it, to put out your hand and take it.” – Torrey) we are in communion with GOD more than we think. Chambers likens it to “Breathing”. An involuntary muscle reaction that happens to us unawares and keeps us alive I might add. I like this analogy in knowing that HE is (“stamp(ing) the impress of His character” – Torrey) on me unawares, just like breathing and keeping me alive. It is wonderful to behold. HE is faithful.
J.
steve morrow says
August 2, 2012 at 7:37 pmHelp us O LORD to allow you to have the last word for
——YOU ARE THE LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS——
Help us also O LORD to follow your example as even Paul did
And we are instructed to do so as well help us O lord that we
would be of a good courage and strength to follow YOUR ways
Deuteronomy 4:10
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD THY GOD
in Horeb when the LORD said unto me Gather ME the people
together and I will make them hear MY words that they learn to fear ME all the days that they shall live upon the earth
AND THAT THEY MAY TEACH THEIR CHILDREN
Psalm 119:76
Let I pray thee thy merciful kindness be for my comfort
according to thy word unto thy servant
Matthew 26:39
And HE went a little further and fell on his face and prayed
saying O MY FATHER if it be possible let this cup pass from ME
——— NEVERTHELESS NOT AS I WILL BUT AS THOU WILT ———
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation
the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak
We have many things to ask and pray to you for O LORD
Help us also not to forget your instructions for they are many
Help us O LORD that we would constantly be seeking your help
John 15:5
I am the vine you are the branches
He that abideth in ME and I in him
The same bringeth forth much fruit
For without ME you can do nothing
Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you might be filled with the
KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL IN ALL WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in
KNOWLEDGE AND IN ALL JUDGEMENT
2 Corinthians 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for CHRIST
as thou GOD did beseech you by us
We pray you in CHRISTS stead —-BE YOU RECONCILED TO GOD—-
Matthew 6:9
After this manner therefore pray ye
OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN HALLOWED BE THY NAME
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said how shall I put thee among the children and give thee a pleasant land a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations
and I said thou shalt call ME MY FATHER and shalt not turn away from ME
2 Thessalonians 1:11
Wherefore also we pray always for you that our GOD would count
—YOU WORTHY OF HIS CALLING—and fulfill all the good pleasure
of HIS goodness —AND THE WORK OF FAITH WITH POWER—
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart the LORD will not hear me
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the LORD may have free course and be GLORIFIED even as it is with you
Help us O LORD to have a powerful love for your testimonies
LOVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
jhnsn d-s says
August 3, 2012 at 4:26 pmThe encouragement that James gave certainly would over come any feelings of unworthness that a person may have, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” james 1:5
This is pre·cise·ly what what the manys problem was lacking in wisdom “You do not have…” James 4:2
Its apparant that some of the wisdom from above came through james words but the big unknown here is how would God, no not yhwh or father but God decided to give select wisdom to the one(s) that act on james words.
Donna Sharp says
August 4, 2012 at 2:36 amLOVE :)He Chose David as King, Mary as Christs mother, Abraham as father of all. He says let us all ask for wisdom, and the gifts of the spirit, but I personally have found they all come to life with LOVE.
He also says do not lean on your own understandin & my ways are not your ways, so I just accept certain truths as just that, if I reason I get nowhere fast 🙂
He has chosen to give each of us a measure of faith according to his will, he is our father he chooses who gets what and how much they get. He tells me keep my eyes on him and follow his commands of which he said I leave you with these two.
Matthew 22:37 And He said to him, ” ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND
Matthew 22:39″The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
Lots of people don’t have wisdom but many more don’t have love, the greatest of all.
Be Blessed and greatly love by your God,for he is with you, Amen !!!
Mark says
August 4, 2012 at 7:36 pmTomarrow night I will be preaching on the subject of prayer and the lack of effort we give to the task. This reading has helped me fix the necessity of the subject in my heart. As a pastor, my prayer life is the strength of the life I am supposed to live and the way of lasting holiness too.Pray for me that I may be the praying preacher which pleases Him.
steve morrow says
August 5, 2012 at 6:42 amHelp us O LORD that we would live by your words and your truth and walk as you walked so that we would not give in to mans opinions and darkness helps us to be done with darkness that we would walk in light and lose ourselves for you and the gospel
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said
It was necessary that the word GOD should first have been spoken to you But seeing you put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life lo we turn to the gentiles
Luke 20:33
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she for seven had her to wife
Luke 20:34
And JESUS answering said unto them
The children of this world marry and are given in marriage
Luke 20:35&36
—-BUT THEY WHICH SHALL BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY—- TO OBTAIN THAT WORLD AND THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD NEITHER MARRY NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE
(36)NEITHER CAN THEY DIE ANYMORE FOR THEY ARE EQUAL UNTO THE ANGELS—-AND ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD—-BEING THE CHILDREN
OF THE RESURRECTION
Colossians 1:9&10
For this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you
And to desire that you might be —FILLED— with the knowledge of —HIS—will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding
(10)—–THAT YOU MIGHT WALK WORTHY OF THE LORD UNTO ALL PLEASING BEING FRUITFUL —-IN EVERY GOOD WORK—-AND INCREASING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore the prisoner of the LORD beseech you that you walk
—WORTHY— of the vocation wherewith you are called
2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of GOD for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
tribulations—-THAT YOU ENDURE—-
2 Thessalonians 1:5
Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgement of GOD
that you may be —-COUNTED WORTHY—-of the kingdom of GOD
FOR WHICH YOU ALSO SUFFER
1 Corinthians 11:27
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the LORD
1 Corinthians 11:29
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily
Eateth and drinkethh —DAMNATION— to himself
Not discerning the LORDS body
1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you
and many sleep
HELP US LORD JESUS TO BE WORTHY OF YOUR CALLING FOR WE CAN
DO NOTHING OF OURSELVES BUT THIS YOU SAY WE MUST DO HELP US
LORD HELP US WE ASK THE FATHER IN YOUR NAME
LOVING THE LORD
steve morrow says
August 5, 2012 at 8:14 am———James 1:22———
But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only
DECEIVING YOUR OWN SELVES
Luke 8:15
But that on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart —HAVING HEARD THE WORD—KEEP IT—
and bring forth fruit with patience
Luke 8:21
And HE answered and said unto them
MY mother and MY brethren
—-ARE THESE WHICH HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND DO IT—-
Hebrews 2:11
For both HE that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified
are all one
For which cause HE is not ashamed to call them brethren
John 17:9-11
I pray for them
I pray not for the world
But for them which thou hast given me for they are thine
(10)And all mine are thine
and thine are mine and I am glorified in them
(11)And now I am no more in the world but these are in the world
and I come to thee
HOLY FATHER keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given to ME —THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE–
John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth
Thy word is truth
Ephesians 4:4
THERE IS ONE BODY and one spirit even as you are called in one
hope of your calling
Colossians 1:23
—IF YOU CONTINUE— in the faith grounded and settled
And be not moved away from—THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL—
which you have heard and which was preached to every creature
which is under heaven Whereof I Paul am made a minister
Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of CHRIST that whether I come and see you or else be absent
I may hear of your affairs
That you stand fast in one spirit—WITH ONE MIND–
STRIVING TOGETHER FOR THE FAITH OF THE GOSPEL
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore seeing we have this ministry
as we have received mercy we faint not
2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty
Not walking in craftiness Nor handling the word of GOD
—DECEITFULLY—BUT BY MANIFESTATION OF THE TRUTH—
commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of GOD
2 Corinthians 4:3
But if our gospel be hid
It is hid to them that are lost
2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not
LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF CHRIST
WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD SHOULD SHINE UNTO THEM
John 3:21
But he that —DOETH TRUTH COMETH TO THE LIGHT—
that his deeds may be made manifest that they are
wrought in GOD
Psalm 119:130
The entrance of thy words giveth light
It giveth understanding unto the simple
Mark 8:35
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it
But whosoever shall lose his life for MY sake and the
—GOSPELS—the same shall save it
LOVING THE LORD