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O let us no longer throw the blame of our unanswered prayers on the secret will of God, but on our own praying amiss. Let that word, "Ye receive not, because ye ask amiss," be as the lantern of the Lord, searching heart and life to prove that we are indeed such as those to whom Christ gave His promises of certain answers. Let us believe that we can know if our prayer be according to God's will. Let us yield our heart to have the word of the Father dwell richly there, to have Christ's word abiding in us. Let us live day by day with the anointing which teacheth all things. Let us yield ourselves unreservedly to the Holy Spirit as He teaches us to abide in Christ, to dwell in the Father's presence, and we shall soon understand how the Father's love longs that the child should know His will. In confidence that that will includes all that His power and love have promised to do, we shall know too that He hears the petitions which we ask of Him. "This is the boldness which we have, that if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us."
Blessed Master, with my whole heart I thank Thee for this blessed lesson, that the path to a life full of answers to prayer is through the will of God. Lord, teach me to know this blessed will by living it, loving it, and always doing it. So shall I learn to offer prayers according to that will, and to find in their harmony with God's blessed will my boldness in prayer and my confidence in accepting the answer.
Father, it is Thy will that Thy child should enjoy Thy presence and blessing. It is Thy will that everything in the life of Thy child should be in accordance with Thy will, and that the Holy Spirit should work this in Him. It is Thy will that Thy child should live in the daily experience of distinct answers to prayer, so as to enjoy living and direct fellowship with Thyself. It is Thy will that Thy name should be glorified in and through Thy children and that it will be in those who trust Thee. O my Father, let this Thy will be my confidence in all I ask.
Blessed Savior, teach me to believe in the glory of this will. That will is the eternal love, which with divine power works out its purpose in each human will that yields itself to it. Lord, teach me this. Thou canst make me see how every promise and every command of the word is indeed the will of God and that its fulfillment is secured to me by God Himself. Let thus the will of God become to me the sure rock on which my prayer and my assurance of an answer ever rest. Amen. -Andrew Murray
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