APRIL 2017
Word a living power in our hearts and lives. Read Psalm 119. Notice how earnestly the psalmist prays that God will teach him, and open his eyes, and give him understanding, and incline his heart to God ' s ways. As you read, remember that God ' s Word and God ' s Spirit are inseparable.
Read with the firm purpose of keeping the Word day and night in your heart and in your life.
The whole heart and the whole life must come under the influence of the Word. Psalmist said:“ O how love I Your law! it is my meditation all the day”( Psalm 119:97). And so in the midst of his daily work, the believer can cherish God ' s Word in his heart, and meditate on it. Read Psalm 119 again, until you accept God ' s Word with all your heart, and pray that God may teach you to understand it, and to carry out its precepts in your life.
The Word and Prayer“ Quicken me, O Lord, according unto Thy
Word”( Psalm 119:107).
Prayer and the Word of God are inseparable, and should always go together in the quiet time of the inner chamber. In His Word, God speaks to me; in prayer I speak to
God. If there is to be true fellowship, God and I must both take part. If I simply pray, without using God ' s Word, I am apt to use my own words and thoughts. When I take God ' s thoughts from His Word, and present them before Him, this really gives prayer its power. Then I am enabled to pray according to God ' s Word. How indispensable God ' s Word is for all true prayer!
When I pray, I must seek to know God aright. It is through the Word that the Holy Spirit gives me right thoughts of Him. The Word will also teach me how wretched and sinful I am. It reveals to me all the wonders that God will do for me, and the strength He will give me to do His will. The Word teaches me how to pray with strong desire, with a firm faith, and with constant perseverance. The Word teaches me not only what I am, but what I may become through God ' s grace. And above all, it reminds me each day that Christ is the great Intercessor, and allows me to pray in His Name.
O Christian, learn this great lesson, to renew your strength each day in God ' s Word, and so pray according to His will.
Then we turn to the other side prayer. We need prayer when we read God ' s Word prayer to be taught of God to understand His Word, prayer that through the Holy Spirit I may rightly know and use God ' s Word prayer that I may see in the Word that Christ is all in all, and will be all in me.
Blessed inner chamber, where I may approach God in Christ through the Word and prayer. There I may offer myself to God and His service, and be strengthened by the Holy Spirit, so that His love may be shed abroad in my heart and I may daily walk in that love.
( Taken from God ' s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray.)
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