The FAITH that Takes

INTRODUCTION

You know prayer is important, somehow. You believe God answers prayer, sometimes. You want to be more effective in prayer, some way...You may now take a special course of study on prayer, under the guidance of an instructor who is perhaps more qualified than any other, Andrew Murray.

From the request you undoubtedly share with the apostles themselves, teach us to pray,' this gentle but authoritative teacher will lead you all the way to the zenith of prayer experience: prayer tis a toay of life!

In thirty-one lessons, Andrew Murray shows you from Scripture and the life of Jesus, that:O Prayer is the root and strength of all work for God.O God intends to answer every prayer. Christ-in-you is the real basis for all successful praying..

The FAITH that TAKES

Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for: Believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them' (Mark 11:24).

What a promise-so large, so divine, that our limited ; standing cannot take it in. In every possible way we seek to limit it to what we think safe or probable; instead of allowing it just He gave it, in all its quickening power and energy, to enter in an enlarge our hearts to the measure of what His love and power are really ready to do for us. Faith is very far from being a mere conviction of the truth of God's word or a conclusion drawn from certain premises. It is the ear which has heard God say what He w do, the eye which has seen Him doing it. Therefore, where there is true faith, the answer must come. If we only do the one thing that He asks of us as we pray: "Believe that ye have receive” He will do the thing. He has promised: "Ye shall have them. The keynote of Solomon's prayer in 2 Chron. 6:4, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which He spake with his mouth to my father David” is the keynote of a true prayer-the joyful adoration of a God whose hands always secures the fulfillment of what His mouth hath spoken. In HIs spirit let us listen to the promise Jesus gives; each part of it has its divine message.

'All things whatsoever.' At this first word our human wisdom at once begins to doubt and ask, "Surely this cannot be literally true?' But if it is not, why did the Master say it and use the strongest expression. He could find: "All things whatsoever.” It is not as if this were the only time. He spoke this way-He also said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth' and "If ye have faith, nothing shall be impossible to you.'

Faith is so wholly the work of God's Spirit through His Word in the prepared heart of the believing disciple that it is impossible that the fulfullment should not come. Faith is the pledge and forerunner of the coming answer. Yes, All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye receive.” The tendency of human reason is to interpose here certain qualifying clauses-"if expedient,' 'if according to God's will'-to break the force of a statement which appears dangerous.

Beware of dealing this way with the Master's words. His promise is literally true. He wants His often-repeated 'all things' to penetrate our hearts and reveal how mighty the power of faith is and how wholly our Father shares His power and places it at the disposal of the child that wholly trusts Him.

Faith is to have its food and strength in this "all things'; if we weaken this, we weaken faith. The whatsoever is unconditional. The only condition is what is implied in the believing. Before we can believe, we must determine God's will with certainty. Believing is the exercise of a soul surrendered to the influence of the Word and the Spirit. When once we do believe, nothing shall be impossible.

God forbid that we should try to bring down His "all things' to the level of what we think possible. Let us now simply take Christ’s “uwhatsoever” as the measure and the hope of our faith; it is a seed-word which, if taken just as He gives it, and kept in the heart, will open and take root, fill our life with its fullness and bring forth much fruit. 'All things whatsoeverye pray and ask for.

In prayer these all things are to be brought to God, to be asked and received of Him. The faith that receives them is the fruit of the prayer. In one aspect there must be faith before there can be prayer; in another, faith is the outcome and the growth of prayer. In the personal presence of the Saviour, and fellowship with Him, faith rises to grasp what at first appeared too high. In prayer we hold

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