THE EAR IN PRAYER

 Psalms 119:9-16

God talks in the old Book. He talks out of the Book to us. Then we want to talk with him. Bible study is the listening side of prayer. He draws out our praise and love. He encourages us to ask definitely and expect confidently. Then we do as he asks. And then he can do as we ask. Obedience is keeping the door open to God. And he uses every door that is open.

Matthew 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again. 

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FRESH FUEL

2 Corinthians 5:14-19

When we feel the fires of the Father’s love burning, then we start. The music of his voice catches and thrills, and we answer back. His love draws out our answering love. We open the door. He comes in and kindles his fires on the hearthstone of our heart. Then we put fresh fuel on the fires daily: studying his Word, chewing the cud of it daily, obeying it habitually—this is the fresh fuel.

Matthew 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,

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THE LOVE OF LOVE

1 John 3:1-8

The Father’s love is the real beginning of the Christian life. That love was so real that it gave the Only Begotten to make a way back for us to the old home. He never forces anyone. He wants our free choice freely given. That’s the love of his love for us. But he does kindle the subtle, soft-burning fires of his love until we are mellowed and melted, and want to come back.

Matthew 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,

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FINEST FRUIT

2 Timothy 4:1-8

We shall be like Jesus some glad day when we come up into his presence. We’ll be like him in purity and goodness and in being wholly, thoroughly right. This is the finest fruit, the crown of the fruitage. It’s the final fruitage in us, of his blood shed, of our choice of him persisted in, and of the gracious work within us of his Spirit. And each passing day may help ripen to the full that wondrous fruit.

Hebrews 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  

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GOD WITHIN MAKING MUSIC

Philippians 4:4-9

Peace is a heart word. It’s more. It’s a heart thing. And the thing’s immensely more than the word. The experience is so much more than can be told. And the heart controls life and mood and service. Peace is God himself within making music, holding off all storm and disturbance and discord. He comes in through the only door to the heart, the door of our glad consent to his unstinted presence and control.

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

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