How Deliverance from Prayerlessness May Be Continued (Continued)

Father, and the Father in Him, in such a sense that they had one life, one glory. All that they knew about Christ, they would find in God. He laid much emphasis on this, because it was only through such a faith in Him and His Divine glory that they could do the works which He did, or even greater works. This faith would lead them to know that just as Christ and the Father are One, so also they were in Christ, and Christ was in them.

It is this intimate, spiritual, personal, uninterrupted relationship to the Lord Jesus, which manifests itself powerfully in our lives, and especially in our prayer-lives. Let us consider this and see what it means ; — that all the glorious attributes of God are in our Lord Jesus Christ. Think of —

I. Gop’s OMNIPRESENCE, With which He fills the world, and every moment is present in everything. Just as it is with the Father, so now our Lord Jesus is everywhere present, above all with each of His redeemed ones. This is one of the greatest and most important lessons which our faith must learn. We can clearly understand this from the example of our Lord’s disciples. What was the peculiar privilege of these disciples, who were always in fellowship with Him? It was uninterrupted enjoyment of the presence of the Lord Jesus. It was because of this they were so sorrowful at the thought of His death. They would be deprived of that presence. He would be no longer with them. How, under these circumstances, did the Lord Jesus comfort them? He promised that the Holy Spirit from heaven should so work in them a sense of the fullness of His life and of His personal presence, that He would be even more intimately near, and have more unbroken fellowship with them, than ever they experienced while He was upon earth.

This great promise is now the inheritance of every believer, although so many of them know little about it. Jesus Christ, in His Divine personality, in that

eternal love which led Him to the cross, longs to —

have fellowship with us every moment of the day, and to keep us in the enjoyment of that fellowship. This ought to be explained to every new convert: ‘‘The Lord loves you so, that He would have you near Him without a break, that you may have experience of His love.’’ This is what every believer must learn who has felt his powerlessness for a life of prayer, of obedience, and of holiness. This alone will give us power as intercessors, to conquer the world, and to win souls out of it for our Lord.

II. THe omNIPoTENCcE oF God. — How wonderful is God’s power! We see it in Creation, we see it in the wonders of redemption recorded in the Old Testament. We see it in the wonderful works of Christ which the Father wrought in Him, and above all in His resurrection from the dead. We are called on to believe in the Son, just as we believe in the Father. Yes, the Lord Jesus who, in His love, is so unspeakably near us, is the Almighty One with whom nothing is impossible. Whatever may be in our hearts or flesh, which will not submit to us, He can and will conquer. Everything that is promised in God’s Word, all that is our inheritance as children of the New Covenant, the Almighty Jesus can bestow upon us. If I bow before Him in my Inner Chamber, then I am in contact with the eternal, unchanging power of God. If I commit myself for the day to the Lord Jesus, then I may rest assured that it is His eternal almighty power which has taken me under its pro-

4 tection, and which will accomplish everything for me.

Oh, if we would only take time for the Inner Chamber, so that we might experience in full reality the presence of this Almighty Jesus! What a blessedness would be ours through faith! An unbroken fellowship with an Omnipresent and Almighty Lord.

III. Tur HoLy Love or God. — This means that He, with His whole heart, offers all His Divine attributes, for our service, and is prepared to impart Himself to us. Christ is the revelation of His love. He is the Son of His love — the Gift of His love — the power of His love; and this Jesus, who has sought on the cross to give an overwhelming proof of His love in His death and blood-shedding, so as to make it impossible for us not to believe in that love — this Jesus is He who comes to meet us in the Inner Chamber, and gives the positive assurance that un-

. broken fellowship with Him is our inheritance, and will, through Him, become our experience. The holy love of God which sacrificed everything to conquer sin and bring it to naught, comes to us in Christ to save us from every sin.

Brethren, take time to think over that word of our Lord: ‘‘Ye believe in God, believe also in Me.’’ ‘*Believe Me that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.’’ That is the secret of the life of prayer. Take time in the Inner Chamber to bow down and worship; and wait on Him till he unveils Himself, and takes possession of you, and goes out with you to show how a man may live and walk in abiding fellowship with an unseen Lord.

Do you long to know how you may always experience deliverance from the sin of prayerlessness?

Here you have the secret. Believe in the Son of God, give Him time in the Inner Chamber to reveal Himself in His ever-present nearness, as the Eternal and Almighty One, the Eternal Love who watches over you. You will experience what, up till now, you have, perhaps, not known — that it has not entered into the heart of man what God can do for those who love Him.