FIRST DAY
What to Pray - For the Power of the Holy
Spirit.
I bow my Knees unto the Father, that He would grant you that
ye may be strengthened with power through His Spirit. - Eph. 3:14-16. Wait
for the promise of the Father. -Acts 1:4.
"The fuller manifestation of
the grace and energy of the blessed Spirit of God, in the removal of all that is
contrary to God's revealed will, so that we grieve not the Holy Spirit, but that
He may work in mightier power in the Church, for the exaltation of Christ and
the blessing of souls." God has one promise to and through His exalted Son; our
Lord has one gift to His Church; the Church has one need; all prayer unites in
the one petition - the power of the Holy Spirit. Make it your one prayer.
How to Pray - As a Child Asks a Father
If a son ask bread of
any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone! How much more shall your
Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him? -Luke 11:11,13.
Ask as simply and trustfully as a child asks bread. You can do this because "God
hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying, Abba, Father. "
This Spirit is in you to give you childlike confidence. In the faith of His
praying in you, ask for the power of that Holy Spirit everywhere. Mention places
or circles where you specially ask it to be seen.
Special Petitions
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