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  (THE LIFE OF PRAYER) 1. THE PATTERN PRAYER
  by A.B. Simpson
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"And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us
our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead
us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil." (Luke 11:2-4). This
wonderful prayer was dictated by our Lord in reply to the question on
the part of His disciples, "Lord, teach us to pray." His answer was to
bid them pray. This is the only way we shall ever learn to pray, by just
beginning to do it. And as the babbling child learns the art of speech
by speaking, and the lark mounts up to the heights of the sky by beating
its little wings again and again upon the air, so prayer will teach us
how to pray; and the more we pray, the more shall we learn the mysteries
and heights and depths of prayer. And the more we pray, the more we
shall realize the incomparable fullness and completeness of this
unequaled prayer, the prayer of universal Christendom, the common
liturgy of the Church of God, the earliest and holiest recollection of
every Christian child, and the latest utterance often of the departing
soul. We who have used it most have come to feel that there is no want
which it does not interpret and no holy aspiration which it may not
express. There is nothing else in the Holy Scriptures which more fully
evolves the great principles that underlie the divine philosophy of
prayer.

IT TEACHES US THAT ALL TRUE PRAYER BEGINS IN THE RECOGNITION OF THE
FATHER. It is not the cry of nature to an unknown God, but the
intelligent converse of a child with his heavenly Father. It presupposes
that the suppliant has become a child, and it assumes that the mediation
of the Son has preceded the revelation of the Father. No one, therefore,
can truly pray until he has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and
received through Him the child-heart in regeneration, and then been led
into the realization of sonship in the family of God. The Person to whom
prayer is directly addressed is the Father as distinguished from the Son
and the Holy Ghost. The great purpose of Christ\

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