Lifting Up The Faithful

Today we pray for those in our nations government who are saved and faithful in Christ. We are thankful they know the Lord and serve Him, as well as serve we the people. We pray for them today from Ephesians 1 beginning in verse 17:<br/><br/>[Eph 1:17-19 NKJV] 17 &#8230;that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what [is] the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power&#8230;<br/><br/>Prayer Insights &#8230; Andrew Murray<br/><br/>If there is one thing I think the Church needs to learn, it is that God means prayer to have an answer, and that it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive what God will do for His child who gives himself to believe that his prayer will be heard.<br/><br/>God hears prayer; this is a truth universally admitted, but of which very few understand the meaning, or experience the power. If what I have written stir my reader to go to the Master&#8217;s words, and take His wondrous promises simply and literally as they stand, my object has been attained.<br/><br/>And then just one thing more. Thousands have in these last years found an unspeakable blessing in learning how completely Christ is our life, and how He undertakes to be and to do all in us that we need. I know not if we have yet learned to apply this truth to our prayer-life. Many complain that they have not the power to pray in faith, to pray the effectual prayer that availeth much. The message I would fain bring them is that the blessed Jesus is waiting, is longing, to teach them this. Christ is our life: in heaven He ever liveth to pray; His life in us is an ever-praying life, if we will but trust Him for it.<br/><br/>...it is only when the Church gives herself up to this holy work of intercession t