A Trained Ear

Wednesday. Gen. 18: 23-33.

Prayer is Spirit-suggested. It needs a strongly bended will. Through that comes the open or trained ear. So we learn God’s plans. We catch the prayer he needs to have prayed. His promise turns into a prayer on our lips, and so it is a prophecy of what he will do. Thus prayer is restrained as well as inspired. Its whole purpose is to get God’s love-will done through the needed human channels. Prayer’s touchstone is a trained ear,

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