bygraceiam..revelation..

 

Hello Everyone God Bless You..

 
Oh! yes, the possibility connected with Prayer is, assuredly, a startling one. It may be we have never paused to think about it. It may be it has not struck us, that it is on account of this possibility that men have been so urged to pray, that the Bible lays such stress on the importance of this exercise, and that the Saviour Christ as He passed across the stage of earth-life was so pre-eminently a Man of Prayer. I said the possibility attached to Prayer is a startling one; and is it not so? At first thought, it does seem incredible that we, poor, feeble, faulty creatures, who are such tiny specks in the immensity around us, who know so very little, and are so hemmed in by the restrictions of the Physical, may, nevertheless, by Prayer, soar above the limitations of Time and Space, and the laws that condition Matter, and may literally transport our vital self into a realm that is Spiritual, and cause that self to function in the same way as the Being of God and the beings of angels are functioning. But such is the possibility of Prayer; and our realization of that possibility will re-color and give definiteness to the whole of our religious ideas. Our knowledge of what we can do by Prayer will lead us to better understand the complexity and greatness of our own being. The words of the Psalmist, in speaking of man, will not appear to us a pious exaggeration—"Thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honor" (Ps. 8: 5, Revised Version). The knowledge of what our spirit self is capable of doing in the act of Prayer will enable us also to view more complacently the incident of dying. If we be conscious that our vital and essential self has constantly projected itself from its "earthly tabernacle," and has actually energized in the realm of spirit, the thought of leaving that tabernacle more completely and forever will not appal us. If my self has been able to touch the Spiritual, in spite of my having been heavily handicapped by a coarse physical body, what a reasonable thought that my contact with God and spiritual things will be closer—much closer, when that body shall have been left behind! Thus, the consciousness of the possibility of Prayer gives us a magnificent foundation for our hope of continued life after death.

Before we pass on to consider more particularly this subject, it will not be out of place to note a fact that is very suggestive.

 Mankind has always had an ineradicable conviction that in some way or another great possibilities are bound up in Prayer. With respect to every Religion, of whatsoever age, and under whatsoever conditions of human life. Prayer has always been considered an indispensable adjunct. Not only Christians and Jews, but Mohammedans, Parsees, Buddhists, Hindoos, and even Pagans have felt, and felt intensely, that they must pray. They have felt that some great end is attainable by Prayer. They, or many of them, not acquainted with the facts of scientific research with which we are familiar—the demonstrated facts of Telepathy and Telaesthesia—may not have been able to fully gauge the possibilities of Prayer; but, at all events, they have felt that Prayer has possibilities linked with it. They have believed that by Prayer they, in some way or another, could get into contact with God and spiritual realities.

This all but universal instinct points, surely, to the possibility of such a contact. The great All-Father is no heartless mocker of His creatures. He would never have implanted in men this desire to pray, unless communion with them and Him could be established. Here, then, in the persistent prayers of mankind, we have an indication that God means us to be in touch with the Spiritual

Amen and Amen....