Project Gutenberg's Quiet Talks on Prayer
by S. D. Gordon
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey), 1859-1936
- Title
- Quiet Talks on Prayer
- Credits
- Produced by Distributed Proofreaders
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BV: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Practical theology, Worship
- Subject
- Prayer -- Christianity
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13196
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13196
- Release Date
- August 17, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Quiet Talks on Prayer — S. D. Gordon — Contents
- 2.I. The Meaning And Mission Of Prayer — Prayer the Greatest Outlet of Power — Five Outlets of Power. — In touch with a planet. — Intercession is Service. — The Spirit Switchboard. — The Broad Inner Horizon. — Prayer the Deciding Factor in a Spirit Conflict — A Prehistoric Conflict. — Prayer is Projecting One's Spirit Personality. — Giving God a Fresh Footing. — The Earth, the Battle-Field in Prayer — Prayer a War Measure. — Three Forms of Prayer. — The Climax of Prayer. — Six Facts Underlying Prayer. — The Victor's Great Plan. — Does Prayer Influence God? — How God Gives. — A Very Old Question. — The Greatest Prayer.
- 3.II. Hindrances to Prayer — Why the Results Fail — Breaking with God. — A Coaling Station for Satan's Fleet. — The Shortest Way to God. — Search Me. — Why the Results are Delayed — God's Pathway to Human Hearts. — For the Sake of a Nation. — That More Might be Given and Gotten. — The Best Light for Studying a Thorn. — Shaping a Prayer on the Anvil of the Knees. — The Great Outside Hindrance — The Traitor Prince. — Praying is Fighting. — A double Wrestling Match. — Prayer Concerns Three. — A Stubborn Foe Routed.
- 4.III. How to Pray — The "How" of Relationship — God's Ambassadors. — Six Sweeping Statements. — Words With a Freshly Honed Razor-Edge. — The Controlling Purpose. — The Threefold Cord of Jesus' Life. — The "How" of Method — Touching the Hidden Keys. — Making God's Purpose Our Prayer. — The Trysting Place. — Our Prayer Teacher. — The Power of a Name. — The Birthplace of Faith. — The Listening Side of Prayer — A Trained Ear. — Through the Book to God. — A Spirit Illumined Mind. — Wide Reading. — A Mirror Held up to God's Face. — Something about God's Will in Connection With Prayer — He Came to His Own. — The One Purpose of Prayer. — The Spirit's Prayer Room. — How to Find God's Will. — May we Pray With Assurance for the Conversion of Our Loved Ones — God's Door into a Home. — A Free Agent Enslaved. — The Place Where God is Not. — Saving the Life. — Giving God a Clear Road for Action.
- 5.IV. Jesus' Habits of Prayer — Jesus' Habits of Prayer — A Pen Sketch. — Dissolving Views. — Deepening Shadows. — Under the Olive Trees. — A Composite Picture. — Footnotes
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