| › PREFACE - It is not the purpose of this Preface to anticipate the biography of Dr. Whyte, now being prepared by Dr. G. Freeland Barbour, or to provide a conside ...read |
| › 1 - THE MAGNIFICENCE OF PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"A royal priesthood."-1 Pet. ii. 9.
"I am an apostle," said Paul, "I magnify mine office." And we also hav ...read |
| › 2 - THE GEOMETRY OF PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity."-Is. lvii. 15.
I HAVE had no little difficulty in findin ...read |
| › 3 - THE HEART OF MAN AND THE HEART OF GOD - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us."-Ps. lxii. 8. ...read |
| › 4 - JACOB-WRESTLING - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Jacob called the name of the place Peniel."-Gen. xxxii. 30.
ALL the time that Jacob was in Padan-aram we ...read |
| › 5 - MOSES-MAKING HASTE - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"And Moses made haste . . ."-Ex. xxxiv. 8.
THIS passage is by far the greatest passage in the whole of the ...read |
| › 6 - ELIJAH-PASSIONATE IN PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Elias . . . prayed in his prayer."-Jas. v. 17 (Marg.).
ELIJAH towers up like a mountain above all the oth ...read |
| › 7 - JOB-GROPING - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Oh that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to His seat."-Job xxiii. 3.
THE Book of Job ...read |
| › 8 - THE PSALMIST - SETTING THE LORD ALWAYS BEFORE HIM - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i.
"I have set the Lord always before me."-Ps. xvi. 8.
IF this so devotionally disposed disciple had lived in ...read |
| › 9 - HABAKKUK-ON HIS WATCH-TOWER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower."-Hab. ii. i.
HABAKKUK'S tower was not built of stone ...read |
| › 10 - OUR LORD-SANCTIFYING HIMSELF - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i.
"And for their sakes I sanctify Myself ..."-John xvii. xix.
"I have an exceedingly complex idea of sanctif ...read |
| › 11 - OUR LORD IN THE GARDEN - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i.
"Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while ...read |
| › 12 - ONE OF PAUL'S PRAYERS - "Lord, teach us to pray,"-Luke xi. i.
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father..."-Eph. iii. 14-19.
If we do not learn to pray, it will no ...read |
| › 13 - ONE OF PAUL'S THANKSGIVINGS - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Giving thanks unto the Father . . ."-Col. i. 12, 13.
THANKSGIVING is a species of prayer. Thanksgiving is ...read |
| › 14 - THE MAN WHO KNOCKED AT MIDNIGHT - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i.
"Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight..."-Luke. xi. 5-8.
It is night. It is ...read |
| › 15 - PRAYER TO THE MOST HIGH - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"They return, but not to the Most High."-Hos. vii. 16.
THE Most High. The High and Lofty One, That inhabit ...read |
| › 16 - THE COSTLINESS OF PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart."-Jer. xxix. 13.
IN hi ...read |
| › 17 - REVERENCE IN PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person? saith the Lord of Hosts." ...read |
| › 18 - THE PLEADING NOTE IN PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Let us plead together."-Isa.xliii. 26.
WE all know quite well what it is to "plead together." We all plea ...read |
| › 19 - CONCENTRATION IN PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"When thou hast shut thy door."-Matt. vi. 6.
We shut our door when we wish to be alone. We shut our door w ...read |
| › 20 - IMAGINATION IN PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i.
"Full of eyes."-Rev. iv. 8.
I NEVER see, or hear, or speak, or write the word "imagination" without being ...read |
| › 21 - THE FORGIVING SPIRIT IN PRAYER - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any."-Mark xi. 25.
PRAYER is a world by itself, ...read |
| › 22 - THE SECRET BURDEN - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1.
"Apart. . ."-Zech. xii. 12.
Down to Gehenna, and up to the throne, He travels the fastest, who travels alo ...read |
| › 23 - THE ENDLESS QUEST - "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i.
"He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (l ...read |
