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  BELIEVE YOUR PRAYERS
  by Peter Taylor Forsyth
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Summary: Faith is essential to prayer, and prayer is faith in action,
bringing the Kingdom to pass and sharing God's freedom.

Topics: "Faith And Prayer", "Gods Kingdom"
Scripture References: Matthew 21:22, Mark 11:24, Philippians 4:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:16, James 5:16

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Peter Taylor Forsyth emphasizes the power of prayer, quoting Matthew
21:22 to encourage believers to ask in prayer with faith and expect to
receive. He highlights that faith is crucial in prayer, surpassing
scientific or philosophical considerations, and that prayer is not just
a necessity of faith but faith in action. Forsyth explains that through
prayer, the soul connects intimately with God, allowing for the
harmonization of opposing elements and the alignment of human will with
God's Kingdom, stressing the importance of prayer in bringing about
God's Will and Kingdom.

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"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive"

(Matt. 21:22).

Do not allow your practice in prayer to be arrested by scientific or
philosophic considerations as to how answer is possible. That is a
valuable subject for discussion, but it is not entitled to control our
practice. Faith is at least as essential to the soul as science, and it
has a foundation more independent. And prayer is not only a necessity of
faith, it is faith itself in action.

Criticism of prayer dissolves in the experience of it. When the soul is
at close quarters with God it becomes enlarged enough to hold together
in harmony things that oppose, and to have room for harmonious
contraries. For instance: God, of course, is always working for His Will
and Kingdom. But man is bound to pray for its coming, while it is coming
all the time. Christ laid stress on prayer as a necessary means of
bringing the Kingdom to pass. And it cannot come without our praying.
Why? Because its coming is the prayerful frame of soul. So again with
God's freedom. It is absolute. But it reckons on ours. Our prayer does
not force His hand; it answers His freedom in kind. We are never so
active and free as in prayer to an absolutely free God. We share His
freedom when we are 'in Christ.'

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/peter-taylor-forsyth/believe-your-prayers/
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