Christian Prayer and Fasting

“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17)
OUR LORD JESUS prayed much for his people while he was here on earth. He made Peter the special subject of his intercession when he knew that he was in extraordinary danger. The midnight wrestlings of the Son of man were for his people. In […]

“In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” (Philippians 4:6)
ACCORDING TO THE TEXT, we are both by prayer and supplication to make known our requests unto God. If any distinction be intended here, I suppose that by prayer is meant the general act of devotion and […]

“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundations of the world.” (John 17:24) 
WHEN the High Priest of old entered into the most holy place, he kindled the incense […]

“Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed!” (1 Chronicles 4:10)
We know very little about Jabez, except that he was more honorable than his brethren, and that he was called Jabez because his mother bare him with sorrow. It will sometimes happen that where there is the most sorrow in the antecedents, there will be the […]

Then rising up in holy reverence, meditate as thou art putting off thy clothes—
1. That the day is coming when thou must be barely unstript of all that thou hast in the world, as thou art now of thy clothes; thou hast, therefore, here but the use of all things, as a steward, for a […]