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What is it?…
🛐 “…prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven’s storehouse where are treasured the boundless resources of omnipotence” (Steps to Christ, 94, 95) Prayer 1.7
🛐 “Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.” Prayer 8.4
🛐 “Prayer is the breath of the soul. It is the secret of spiritual power. No other means of grace can be substituted and the health of the soul be preserved. Prayer brings the heart into immediate contact with the Wellspring of life, and strengthens the sinew and muscle of the religious experience. Neglect the exercise of prayer, or engage in prayer spasmodically, now and then, as seems convenient, and you lose your hold on God. The spiritual faculties lose their vitality, the religious experience lacks health and vigor….” Prayer 12.4
🛐 “It is a wonderful thing that we can pray effectually, that unworthy, erring mortals possess the power of offering their requests to God. What higher power can man desire than this, – to be linked with the infinite God? Feeble, sinful man has the privilege of speaking to his Maker. We may utter words that reach the throne of the Monarch of the universe. We may speak with Jesus as we walk by the way, and He says, I am at thy right hand.” (Messages to Young People, 249, 250) Prayer 13.1
🛐 “Secret Prayer the Soul of Religion – Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.” (Spiritual Gifts 2:264.) Prayer 13.2
🛐 Prayer is the avenue by which our soul holds dialogue with God: He speaks through His word to us; we respond effectually to Him through our prayers inspired by His Holy Spirit through His Word.
🛐 By God’s grace, we strive to experience this in the IPU at ABL. Will you join us?*
*(Please see the Advent-Hour Bulletin Board for details)
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