PRAYER NOTES

By Rick Mathes

Come To “Throne of Grace”

What would you think of a man who had $1,000,000 in the bank and only drew out a penny a day? That’s you and me, and the sinner is blinder than we are.

The throne of grace is established. There we are to get all the grace we need. Sin is not so strong as the arm of God. He will help and deliver you if you will come and get the grace you nee

“Lord, Teach Us To Pray”

Jesus’ disciples came to him, and said, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). It is not recorded that Jesus taught them how to preach. I have often said that I would rather know how to pray like Daniel than to preach like Gabriel.

If you get love into your soul, so the grace of God may come down in answer to prayer, there will be no trouble about reaching the people. It is not by eloquent sermons that perishing souls are going to be reached. We need the power of God in order that the blessing may come down.

Praise God for:

• His majesty.      
• His glory.      
• His excellency.
• His greatness.      
• His holiness.      
• His wisdom.      
• His power.      
• His goodness.      
• His mercy.      
• His loving-kindness and truth.
• His faithfulness and truth.
• His salvation.      
• His wonderful works.
• His consolation.
• His judgment.      
• His counsel.      
• Fulfilling of his promises.
• Pardon of sin.      
• Spiritual health.
• Constant preservation.
• Deliverance.      
• Protection.      
• Answering prayer.
• The hope of glory.
• All spiritual blessings.
• All temporal blessings.
• The continuance of blessings.

Never Found Time

I knelt to pray, but not for long.

I had too much to do.

Must hurry off and get to work,

For bills would soon be due.

And so I said a hurried prayer,

Jumped up from off my knees,

My Christian duties now were done,

My soul could be at ease.

All through the day I had no time

To speak a word of cheer;

No time to speak of Christ to friends,

They’d laugh at me I feared.

No time, no time, too much to do.

That was my constant cry;

No time to give to those in need—

At last was time to die.

And when before the Lord I came,

I stood with downcast eyes;

Within His hands He held a book—

It was the “Book of Life.”

God looked into His book and said,

“Your name I cannot find,

I once was going to write it down,

But never found the time.

Why “Lord’s Prayer” Is Longest

The prayer our Lord taught his disciples, called the Lord’s Prayer, is in the seventeenth chapter of John. That is the longest prayer on record that Jesus made. You can read it slowly and carefully in about four or five minutes.

I think we may learn a lesson here. Our Master’s prayers were short when offered in public. But when he was alone with God, that was a different thing, and he could spend the whole night in communion with his Father.

My experience is that those who pray most in their closets generally make short prayers in public. Long prayers are too often not prayers at all, and they weary the people.