Inducements To Pray

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Part of what we pray is Thanksgiving: Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. We are to give thanks for those in our nations government – and for the benefit we have under their government. …but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God… Prayer Insights … from Jonathan Edwards Seek The Spirit in Prayer The Spirit of God is the chief of blessings, for it is the sum of all spiritual blessings; which we need infinitely more than others, and wherein our true and eternal happiness consists. That which is the sum of the blessings Christ purchased, is the sum of the blessings Christians have to pray for; and that is the Holy Spirit. Therefore, when the disciples came to Christ, desiring him to teach them to pray (Luke 11), and he accordingly gave them particular directions for the performance of this duty; he adds, “If ye then, being evil [earthly], know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” (Luke 11:13). From which words of Christ , we may also observe that there is no blessing we have so great encouragement to pray for, as the Spirit of God. The words imply that our heavenly Father is especially ready to bestow his Holy Spirit on them that ask him. The more excellent the nature of any benefit is — which we stand in need of, the more ready God is to bestow it, in answer to prayer. The infinite goodness of God’s nature is the more gratified, the grand design of our redemption is the better answered, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, has the greater success in his undertaking and labors; and those desires which are expressed in prayer for the most excellent blessings, are the most excellent desires, and consequently such as God most approves of, and is most ready to gratify. According to Edwards, if the Holy Spirit is the greatest

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