other interest is subordinated.

But while not forming a large prayer union, it is suggested that it may
be found helpful to have small prayer circles to unite in prayer, either
for one month, with some special object introduced daily along with the
others, or through a year or longer, with the view of strengthening each
other in the grace of intercession. If a minister were to invite some of
his neighbouring brethren to join for some special requests along with
the printed subjects for supplication, or a number of the more earnest
members of his congregation to unite in prayer for revival, some might
be trained to take their place in the great work of intercession, who
now stand idle because no man hath hired them.

=5. Who is sufficient for these things?=--The more we study and try to
practise this grace of intercession, the more we become overwhelmed by
its greatness and our feebleness. Let every such impression lead us to
listen: =My grace is sufficient for thee=, and to answer truthfully:
=Our sufficiency is of God=. Take courage; it is in the intercession of
Christ you are called to take part. The burden and the agony, the
triumph and the victory are all His. Learn from Him, yield to His Spirit
in you, to know how to pray. He gave Himself a sacrifice to God for men,
that He might have the right and power of intercession. "He bare the sin
of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." Let your faith
rest boldly on His finished work. Let your heart wholly identify itself
with Him in His death and His life. =Like Him=, give yourself =to God= a
sacrifice for men: it is your highest nobility, it is your true and full
union to Him; it will be to you, as to Him, your power of intercession.
Beloved Christian! come and give your whole heart and life to
intercession, and you will know its blessedness and its power. God asks
nothing less; the world needs nothing less; Christ asks nothing less;
let nothing less be what we offer to God.

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. iii. 16.

="Wait for the promise of the Father."=--ACTS i. 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 mightie