us to appropriate the wonderful promises given to prayer. God gives the
Spirit as a Spirit of Supplication, too, to maintain His Divine life
within us as a life out of which prayer ever rises upward.

Without the Holy Spirit no man can call Jesus Lord, or cry, Abba,
Father; no man can worship in spirit and truth, or pray without ceasing.
The Holy Spirit is given the believer to be and do in him all that God
wants him to be or do. He is given him especially as the Spirit of
prayer and supplication. Is it not clear that everything in prayer
depends upon our trusting the Holy Spirit to do His work in us; yielding
ourselves to His leading, depending only and wholly on Him?

We read, "Stephen was a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit." The two
ever go together, in exact proportion to each other. As our faith sees
and trusts the Spirit in us to pray, and waits on Him, He will do His
work; and it is the longing desire, and the earnest supplication, and
the definite faith the Father seeks. Do let us know Him, and in the
faith of Christ who unceasingly gives Him, cultivate the assured
confidence, we can learn to pray as the Father would have us.

A PLEA FOR MORE PRAYER

CHAPTER XI

In the Name of Christ

"Whatsoever ye shall ask _in My Name_, that will I do. If ye shall
ask anything _in My Name_, I will do it. I have appointed you, that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father _in My Name_, He may give it
you. Verily, verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the
Father _in My Name_, He will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked
nothing _in My Name_; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may
be full. At that day ye shall ask _in My Name_."--JOHN xiv. 13, 14,
xv. 16, xvi. 23, 24, 26.

In my name--repeated six times over. Our Lord knew how slow our hearts
would be to take it in, and He so longed that we should really believe
that His Name is the power in which every knee should bow, and in which
every prayer could be heard, that He did not weary of saying it over and
over: _In My Name!_ Between the wonderful _whatsoever ye shall ask_, and
the Divine _I will do it, the Father will give it_, this one word is
the simple link: _In My Name._ Our asking and the Father's giving are to
be equally in the Name of Christ. Everything in prayer depends upon our
apprehending this--_In My Name._

We know what a name is: a word by which we call up to our mind the whole
being and nature of an