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city of a little child; pray with the holy awe and reverence of one in whom God's Spirit dwells and prays. SPECIAL PETITIONS ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ TWENTY-SECOND DAY WHAT TO PRAY.--For all who are in Suffering ="Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are evil entreated, as being yourselves in the body."=--HEB. xiii. 3. What a world of suffering we live in! How Jesus sacrificed all and identified Himself with it! Let us in our measure do so too. The persecuted Stundists and Armenians and Jews, the famine-stricken millions of India, the hidden slavery of Africa, the poverty and wretchedness of our great cities--and so much more: what suffering among those who know God and who know Him not. And then in smaller circles, in ten thousand homes and hearts, what sorrow. In our own neighbourhood, how many needing help or comfort. Let us have a heart for, let us think of the suffering. It will stir us to pray, to work, to hope, to love more. And in a way and time we know not God will hear our prayer. HOW TO PRAY.--Praying always, and not fainting ="He spake unto them a parable to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint."=--LUKE xviii. 1. Do you not begin to feel prayer is really the help for this sinful world? What a need there is of unceasing prayer? The very greatness of the task makes us despair! What can our ten minutes of intercession avail? It is right we feel this: this is the way in which God is calling and preparing us to give our life to prayer. Give yourself wholly to God for men, and amid all your work, your heart will be drawn out to men in love, and drawn up to God in dependence and expectation. To a heart thus led by the Holy Spirit, it is possible to pray always and not to faint. SPECIAL PETITIONS ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
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