Prayer and Promises

THE PROMISE 

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

— John 15:7, NASB 

THE TESTIMONY 

You may feel the deficiency of your character and the smallness of your ability in comparison with the greatness of the work. But if you had the greatest intellect ever given to man, it would not be sufficient for your work. “Without Me ye can do nothing,” says our Lord and Saviour... Whatever may betide, lay hold upon Him with steady, persevering confidence.

Pray when you are fainthearted. When you are desponding, close the lips firmly to men; do not shadow the path of others; but tell everything to Jesus. Reach up your hands for help. In your weakness lay hold of infinite strength. Ask for humility, wisdom, courage, increase of faith, that you may see light in God’s light and rejoice in His love. 

The mere hearing of sermons Sabbath after Sabbath, the reading of the Bible through and through, or the explanation of it verse by verse, will not benefit us or those who hear us, unless we bring the truths of the Bible into our individual experience. The understanding, the will, the affections, must be yielded to the control of the word of God. Then through the work of the Holy Spirit the precepts of the word will become the principles of the life.

As you ask the Lord to help you, honor your Saviour by believing that you do receive His blessing. All power, all wisdom, are at our command. We have only to ask.

Walk continually in the light of God. Meditate day and night upon His character. Then you will see His beauty and rejoice in His goodness. Your heart will glow with a sense of His love. You will be uplifted as if borne by everlasting arms. With the power and light that God imparts, you can comprehend more and accomplish more than you ever before deemed possible.

Christ bids us: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me... If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” 

— The Ministry of Healing, p.513, 514 

THE RESPONSE 

Pray when you are fainthearted, tell everything to Jesus. Reach up your hands for help and in your weakness lay hold of infinite strength.

Ask for humility, wisdom, courage, increase of faith, that you may see light in God’s light and rejoice in His love. 

Ask the Lord to help you and honor your Saviour by believing that you do receive His blessing. All power, all wisdom, are at your command. You have only to ask. 

Meditate day and night upon His character. Rejoice in His goodness until your heart glows with a sense of His love.