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FEBRUARY
PRAYER
DIARY
The Holy Spirit and p rayer
he Holy Spirit is the spirit of all grace and
of each grace as well. Purity, power, holiness,
faith, love, joy and all grace are brought
into being and perfected by him. Would we grow
in grace in particular? Would we be perfect in all
graces? We must seek the Holy Spirit by prayer.
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We urge the seeking of the Holy Spirit. We
need him, and we need to stir ourselves up to
seek him. The measure we receive of him will be
gauged by the fervour of faith and prayer with which
we seek him. Our ability to work for God, and to pray
to God, and live for God, and affect others for God,
will be dependent on the measure of the Holy Spirit
received by us, dwelling in us, and working
through us.
The whole lesson of prayer culminates in asking
for the Holy Spirit as the great objective point of
all praying. In the direction in the Sermon on the
Mount, we have the very plain and definite promise,
“If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children, how much more shall your Father in
Heaven give good things to them that ask him?” In
Luke we have “good things” substituted by “the Holy
Spirit.” All good is comprehended in the Holy Spirit
and he is the sum and climax of all good things.
How simple and direct is our Lord’s direction –
ASK! This is plain and direct. Ask with urgency, ask
without fainting. Ask, seek, knock, till he comes. Your
Heavenly Father will surely send him if you ask for
him. Wait in the Lord for the Holy Spirit. It is the child
waiting, asking, urging and praying perseveringly for
the Father’s greatest gift and for the child’s greatest
need, the Holy Spirit.
Taken from the EM Bounds book The Necessity of Prayer.
18 Revival Times February 2018