Faith & Trust
It is Jesus, praying Himself, who teaches to pray. He knows what prayer is. He learned it amid the trials and tears of His earthly life. In heaven it is still His beloved work: His life there is prayer.
Real faith can never be disappointed.
Give yourself, and live, to do the works of Christ and you will learn to pray so as to obtain wonderful answers to prayer.
It is not the effort of faith, seeking to cling to Thee, nor even the rest of faith, trusting Thee to keep me; it is not the obedience of the will, nor the keeping the commandments; but it is Thyself living in me and in the Father, that alone can satisfy me.
It is only Christ who opens the way and teaches the worship in spirit.
As the union of the branch with the vine is one of growth, never-ceasing growth and increase, so our abiding in Christ is a life process in which the Divine life takes ever fuller and more complete possession of us.
Faith is the eye that looks, the hand that grasps, the mouth that drinks from the fountain of life.
The Father is in secret: in these words Jesus teaches us where He is waiting us, where He is always to be found.
The Holy Spirit is the first of the Father’s gifts, and the one He delights most to bestow.
God is what He is through His Spirit; the Spirit is the very life of God.
He that gives himself to be led by the Spirit in his life, will be led by Him in his prayers too. And he will find that Fatherlike giving is the Divine response to childlike living.
The only right and safe place for the creature is to be and remain absolutely, unceasingly, universally dependent upon God.
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