Category: The Secret of Prayer

One who read part of this manuscript asked, “What is the object of this book?”I answered by asking him a question: “What do you think the object is?”He said, “To produce faith.”Here are a few things that have been covered in other parts of this book, but I want to bring them together so that… Continue reading What Produces the Highest Type of Faith?

We know what He was to Israel under Moses in the four books of the law. We know what He was to Israel under the leadership of Joshua. We know what He was to Israel during all the years of their walking under the covenant.No enemies could stand before them.We know that under David, Israel… Continue reading What He Is to Us

If God be for [you], who can be against [you]? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:31–32)God and you are working together in carrying out His dream for the redemption of the world.He can’t… Continue reading Fellowshipping the Father

The battle of faith is with sense knowledge reasonings. Man’s word has been at war with God’s Word ever since the beginning in the garden. The real struggle today that every believer must wage is with the sense knowledge that governs the human race. Lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy… Continue reading Casting Down Reasonings

Give them something to act upon and they will do it. Open the Bible to them until Acts 20:32 becomes a present tense reality: And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them… Continue reading Never Urge People to Believe

I never realized how many people had this kind of faith. You remember the story from the Gospel of John: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall… Continue reading The Thomas Kind of Faith

Some of these enemies are very dear friends. We have associated with them for many years, and it will be hard for us to give them up. One of them is a desire to read about the Bible and about prayer rather than to study the Word and fit ourselves for this, the highest and… Continue reading Some Enemies of Prayer

One cannot conceive of anything that will cripple faith and put the believer in bondage more quickly and surely than underestimating what He is, and what we are in Him. Along with that will come an underestimation of the Word.We will say right out, “Oh, I believe the Bible is the Word of God,” and… Continue reading Underestimating Jesus

The reason faith is so difficult is that sense knowledge has gained the ascendancy in our educational and religious life. Sense knowledge has all come through our physical contact with the world.We have learned to trust so utterly in our eyes and our ears, and the senses of touch, smell, and taste, that spiritual things… Continue reading A Study in Faith

Every church should have a prayer program. There should be a prayer organization, as well as the young people’s or the Sunday school organization. The prayer life of the church should be so interwoven with every feature of it that God could be seen in every department.The finances are called the sinews of the church,… Continue reading Prayer and the Church

In the first three chapters of the epistle to the Ephesians, we have the consummation of Christ’s substitutionary work in regard to Satan and demons. Paul prays that: Having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance… Continue reading He Put All Things in Subjection Under His Feet

There are two great objectives in redemption. The first is relationship. God is working to the end that man may legally become His child, a partaker of His very nature, so that he will be a genuine heir and joint heir with Jesus.The second objective is to restore to man his lost fellowship. This can… Continue reading Relationship and Fellowship

The integrity of the Word is the basis of faith. The reason for unbelief and a faltering faith is a lack of assurance of the integrity of the promises in the Word. In Romans 10:8, it is called “the word of faith.”God’s Word gives birth to faith; it is God’s faith expressed. By faith we… Continue reading The Integrity of God’s Word

The new creation is based upon legal grounds. You have come into the Father’s family because you responded to His call. You could never have gotten in there by your own efforts.You had to be born of the Holy Spirit. You had to be recreated through the agency of the Word; for He says, “It… Continue reading Faith in Your Legal Rights

After having prayed for one the other morning, she was satisfied that she was perfectly healed, but now the symptoms have returned, and her heart is disturbed. She wonders where the difficulty lies.I asked this party, “Did you tell your husband when you met him at night that you were healed?”“No, you see, I wasn’t… Continue reading Two Confessions

Word. The Word is the source of all faith. The faith must be a quiet assurance, an unconscious faith, something that you do not even think about.You can’t conceive of Jesus saying to Himself, “If I only had faith.”Men and women who have really wrought mighty things have been those who never thought about their… Continue reading How to build Faith

The names that are familiar to us in God’s Westminster Abbey of the church are the names of those who pray, men and women who have climbed the mountains of usefulness in the struggle with circumstances through prayer.There is no denying that the lack of prayer is the bane of the individual member of the… Continue reading The Habit of Prayer

Prayer is our need crying out for help. Prayer is the voice of faith to the Father. Prayer is born then of the sense of need, and the assurance that the need will be met.Unbelief cannot pray; it can only utter words.Prayer is the living Word on lips of faith.It is holding His Word up… Continue reading What Prayer Is

This book is not written about what others were and did, but about what we are and can do! It is a revelation of what we are in Christ, an unveiling of what He can do through us.It is a lifting of the curtain and a revealing of the holy of holies and our ability… Continue reading FIRST WORDS