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User Review - JenniferRobb - LibraryThingA friend recommended this book to me, I think mostly for the section in Part III that discusses if we can pray with assurance for the conversion of our loved ones. At times, I found the author's style easy to understand and other times, I struggled to discern what he wanted to convey. Read full review
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User Review - seoulful - LibraryThingS.D. Gordon in his Quiet Talks on Prayer makes very clear to us that we are engaged in a gigantic spiritual battle here on earth which can only be won through prayer. "Prayer is man giving God a ... Read full review
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Page 102 - Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came.
Page 133 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain ; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Page 224 - And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always : but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Page 186 - Likewise .the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Page 131 - And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Page 222 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 133 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.
Page 131 - Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass ; he shall have it. Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.
Page 189 - And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us : and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
Page 13 - Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Quiet Talks on Prayer |
| Author | Samuel Dickey Gordon |
| Edition | 8 |
| Publisher | Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 12, 2007 |
| Length | 234 pages |
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