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confidence: --- " Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me, and I know that thou hearest me always." "Believe that ye have received." Accept Good as Omnipresence. This is the highest prayer.
The "one thing needful" is recognition. "All things are yours." One says, It takes two to make a gift; one to give, the other to receive. Our lack was in not knowing how to receive.
When Peter was in prison, "Prayer was made without ceasing of the church for him." On a night when "many were gathered together praying" for his delivery, a knock was heard at the door. The maid returning, "told them how Peter stood before the gate." They answered, "Thou art mad." She affirmed it again. Then said they, "It is his angel." We certainly need now, as was needed then, more faith and a new understanding of prayer.
"Oh, Thou, All-seeing and All-knowing One --- Whom we call 'Father,"God,"Creator,' to Thee We pray, not as of old, when ignorance of Thy laws And Thee did bid us supplicate, entreat, Implore for things we most desired; But in the higher understanding With which our great Teacher bade us pray; He who said: 'When thou prayest, believe That things desired by thee are thine.' For thy Father knoweth all thy heart, And gives thee all good blessings, e'er thy prayer Is uttered! God is perfection, law itself, And he no changing needs! But we, his children, Heirs by birth and inheritance, have lived So long in doubt of our estate, can not receive; Our spiritual ears, eyes and thoughts are silent, So we the changing need. Now when we pray, we will not say,
