David quotes Oswald Chambers " Remember, no one has time to pray, we have to take time from other things that are valuable in order to understand how necessary prayer is. The things that act like thorns or stings in our personal lives will go away instantly when we pray; we won't feel the smart any more, because we have God's point of view about them. Prayer means that we get into union with God's view of other people."
"God committed Himself to us by His Word in our praying. The Word of God is the basis, inspiration, and heart of prayer. Jesus Christ stands as the illustration of God's Word, its unlimited good in promise, and its fulfillment. God takes nothing by halves. He gives nothing by halves. We can have to whole of Him whe He as the whold of us. His words of promise are so far-reaching and so encompassing that they seem to have deadened our comprehension and have paralyzed our praying. This appears when we considered those large words in which God almost exhausts human language in promises---"whatever" and "anything," and the all inclusive "whatsoever" and "all things." These great often-repeated promises seem to daze us, and instead of allowing them to move us to asking, testing, and receiving, we turn away full of wonder but empty hands and empty hearts." E.M. Bounds.
Both of these books are wonderful books on prayer...the whys and how tos. Both are full of scripture reference and applications.
Title: Ezra Kneels in Prayer
Ezra, as the Jewish leader, had many tough decisions made only after prayer.
Sweet Jesus,
I ask that You bring those who are in need of Your Words to this site. Open their hearts to receive the message You would have them hear. Please continue to use me as Your tool. Keep my heart and mind open to Your guidance and Word.
Continue to bring those to me You would have me minister to and those who I may be Your light.
Move in our land and others touching hearts and lives.
Your daughter forever,
Amen
To God Be the Glory
Frances Jane Crosby (March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915), usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States, and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer who was during her lifetime one of the best known women in the United States, and was by the end of the 19th century "a household name in evangelical Protestant circles" globally, and "one of the most prominent figures in American evangelical life", being one of the shapers of American culture, helping to "embed Christianity in the history and culture of the United States.
Best known for her Protestant Christian hymns and gospel songs, Crosby was "the premier hymnist of the gospel song period (ca. 1870-1920)", and one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing over 8,000 despite being blind since infancy, with over 100 million copies of her songs printed. Crosby was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1975. nown as the "Queen of Gospel Song Writers",and as the "Mother of modern congregational singing in America", with "dozens of her hymns continue to find a place in the hymnals of Protestant evangelicalism around the world", with most American hymnals containing her work, as "with the possible exception of Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, Crosby has generally been represented by the largest number of hymns of any writer of the twentieth century in nonliturgical hymnals". Her gospel songs were "paradigmatic of all revival music", and Ira Sankey attributed the success of the Moody and Sankey evangelical campaigns largely to Crosby's hymns. Some of Crosby's best-known songs include "Blessed Assurance", "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour", "Jesus Is Tenderly Calling You Home", "Praise Him, Praise Him", "Rescue the Perishing", and "To God Be the Glory". Because some publishers were hesitant to have so many hymns by one person in their hymnals, Crosby used nearly 200 different pseudonyms during her career.
To God be the glory, great things he hath done!
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
and opened the lifegate that all may go in.
Refrain:
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear his voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done!
2. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
to every believer the promise of God;
the vilest offender who truly believes,
that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.
(Refrain)
3. Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done,
and great our rejoicing thru Jesus the Son;
but purer, and higher, and greater will be
our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
(Refrain)
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