Prayer draws us near to our own souls, and purifies our thoughts. We are not asked to believe in the Bible, but to believe the One whom the Bible reveals. We are called to present liberty for the conscience of others, not to bring them liberty for their thoughts and opinions. And if we ourselves are free with the liberty of Christ, others will be brought into that same liberty, the liberty that comes from realizing the absolute control and authority of Christ. Though all men have not the same objects of pursuit, all are impelled by the same love of pursuing. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Luke 10:17 reports, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” The credulous man, abstractly and unconnected with mankind, is a harmless, inoffensive creature; but when mixed with the community, if he happen to have a lively imagination and an alluring tongue, he becomes a more dangerous animal than a mad ox in a crowd. Rapes are unnatural things, and more rare than imagined. His Heaven insulting purpose, God may wedge aside. From the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. Once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless. We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path. We have lost the vision. Is our attitude today an attitude that flows from our vision of God? Are we expecting God to do greater things than He has ever done before? Is there a freshness and a vitality in our spiritual outlook? In the teachings of Christ the element of judgement is always brought out, it is the sign of the love of God. Never sympathize with someone who finds it difficult to get to God; God is not to blame. It is not for us to figure out the reason for the difficulty, but only to present the truth to God so that the Spirit of God will reveal what is wrong.

 When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God himself.  Add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge. Stope hesitating, take the first step. Be determined to act immediately in faith on what God says to you, and never reconsider or change your initial decisions. If you hesitate when God tells you to do something, you are being careless, spurning the grace in which you stand. Take the initiative yourself, make a decision of your will right now, and make it impossible to go back. Burn your bridges behind you, saying, “I will write that letter,” or “I will pay that debt’; and then do it! God gives us more than were we over bold, we should have to ask for, and yet how often (perhaps after saying “Thank God” so curtly that is only a form of swearing) we are supplicants again within the hour. More things are wrought by prayer than this World dreams of, but he has wisely refrained from saying whether they are good things or bad things. It might perhaps be well if the World were to dream of, or even become wide awake to, some of the things that are being wrought by prayer. If someone is constantly taking from you, but gives nothing in return, it may be time to break ties with that individual. We that fight the living World must have the Universal for succor of truth in it. Cast forth the soul in prayer, you meet the effluence of the outer truth, you join with the creative elements giving breath to you. Prayer, the soul’s overflow, the heart’s resignation, so never let someone tell you that your dreams are unlikely of that your faith is God or interpretation of the Bible is irrational, they are trying to rob you of what God has in store for you. Who raises from prayer a better person means that your prayer is answered.