How Deliverance from Prayerlessness May Continue

Wuat we have said about deliverance from the sin of prayerlessness has also application, as answer, to the question: ‘‘How may the experience of deliverance be maintained?’’ Redemption is not granted to us piecemeal, or as something of which we may make use from time to time. It is bestowed as a fullness of grace stored up in the Lord Jesus, which may be enjoyed in a new fellowship with Him every day. It is so necessary that this great truth should be driven home and fastened in our minds, that I will once more mention it. Nothing can preserve you from carelessness, or make it possible for you to persevere in living, powerful prayer, but a daily close fellowship with Jesus our Lord.

He said to His disciples: ‘‘Ye believe in God, believe also in Me. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.... He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do’’ (John 14: ‘aed EO

The Lord wished to teach His disciples that all they had learned from the Old Testament concerning the power and holiness and love of God must now be transferred to Him. They must not believe merely in certain written documents, but in Him personally. They must believe that He was in the

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