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October 17, 2007
GREATER WORKS
And greater works than these shall he do; because I go
unto My Father.
John 14:12
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+14:12&sr=1
Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater
work. We think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher
powers in order to prepare us for God's work. In the teaching of
Jesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of Redemption in me
which produces the miracle of Redemption in others by the power of
God. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer
based on the agony of Redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets
prayer answered; a wise man does not.
Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are.
Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never
allow the thought - "I am of no use where I am;" because you
certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped
you down in circumstances pray, ejaculate to Him all the time.
"Whatsoever ye ask in My name, that will I do." We won't pray unless
we get thrills, that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness.
We have to labour along the line of God's direction, and He says
pray. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send
forth labourers into His harvest."
There is nothing thrilling about a labouring man's work, but it is
the labouring man who makes the conceptions of the genius possible;
and it is the labouring saint who makes the conceptions of his Master
possible. You labour at prayer and results happen all the time from
His standpoint. What an astonishment it will be to find, when the
veil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simply
because you had been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus
Christ.
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