AUGUST 29
Ye ask, and receive not,
because ye ask amiss— Jas.
4:3. |
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Let us learn to pray
aright, as well as to labor and to hope aright; and in order to do
so let us be swift to hear, slow to speak, swift to hearken to the
Word of the Lord and to the lessons which He has already given us,
and to His method of instructing us and guiding us and blessing us.
Let us be slow to tell Him what our preferences are; indeed let us
seek to attain that development of Christian character which will
permit us always not to seek our own wills, but the will and way of
our Father in
heaven. |
| Parallel passages: Psa. 27:8; 66:18;
84:11; Prov. 1:28-30; 8:17; Isa. 59:2; Heb. 4:16; 11:6; John
14:13,14; 15:7; 16:23, 24; Jas. 1:5,6; 5:16, —18; Gen. 32:26; 1 John
5:14, 15; Luke 18:1; Jer.11:11; 14:12; 15:1;29:13; Ezek.
8:18; Mic.3:4;Rom. 8:26, 27; Matt. 7:7-11. |
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