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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE V. 1 'THE PRAYER OF FAITH. Text.? Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.?Mark Xl 24. These words have been by some supposed to refer exclusively to the faith of miracles. But there is not the least evidence of this. That the text was not designed by our Savior to refer exclusively to the faith of miracles, is proved by the connection in which it stands. If you read the chapter, you will see that Christ and his apostles were at this time very much engaged in their work, and very prayerful; and as they returned from their place of retirement in the morning, faint and hungry, they saw a fig-tree at a little distance. It looked very beautiful, and doubtless gave signs as if there was fruit on it; but when they came nigh, they found nothing on it but leaves. And Jesus said, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig- tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remembrance, saithunto him, Master, behold the fig-tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering, saith unto them, have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Then follow the words of the text: Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Our Savior was desirous of giving his disciples instructions respecting the nature and power of prayer, and the necessity of strong faith in God. He therefore stated a ve...

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