'A lack of ardour in prayer, is the sure sign of a lack of depth and of intensity of desire; and the absence of intense desire is a sure sign of God's absence from the heart! To abate
fervour is to retire from God. He can, and does, tolerate many things in the way of
infirmity and error in His children. He can, and will pardon sin when the penitent prays, but two things are intolerable to Him -- insincerity and lukewarmness.
Lack of heart and lack of heat are two things He loathes, and to the Laodiceans He said, in terms of unmistakable severity and condemnation: "I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth."
This was God's expressed judgment on the lack of fire in one of the Seven Churches, and it is His indictment against individual Christians for the fatal want of sacred zeal.
In prayer, fire is the motive power. Religious principles which do not emerge in flame,
have neither force nor effect.
Flame is the wing on which faith ascends; fervency is the soul of prayer.
It was the "fervent, effectual prayer" which availed much.
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian
experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything, rather than a feeble
flame; and it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals, when the surrounding atmosphere is
frigid or lukewarm.
True prayer, must be aflame.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 17)
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'I will spue thee out of My mouth.'
He will THROW US UP! He will VOMIT US OUT! Why? Because we do not believe we have an real NEED of our SAVIOR. Seriously. We may mouth the words but our hearts are saying otherwise. It is our heart, it is our desire for Christ that matters. He would rather we be HOT or COLD, but not this LUKEWARM being who is neither. Lukewarm and believing they have no need of Christ, seriously. They believe they are rich in and of their own accord, when they are destitute! They believe they can see when they are really blinded by their own delusions. They believe they are clothed but they are really stark naked! What sort of delusions are they under that that can believe all that when it's untrue?
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked
They don't KNOW they are WRETCHED, they are MISERABLE, they are POOR, they are BLIND, and they are NAKED. This could be US! Because these people don't know their own awful condition!
Are we those blind, wretched people?! Are WE?! GOD FORBID!
We need to BUY from our SAVIOR that which will keep us from being those MISERABLE people!
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
How do we buy anything of our Savior? What sort of currency can we use? FAITH!
Our currency is believing in CHRIST FOR ALL THINGS, FOR ALL OUR NEEDS! HE gives us the GOLD, He gives us the WHITE RAIMENT, He gives us the EYESALVE. Just like forgiveness we cannot earn these things! We have to get them from our SAVIOR! We have to ACTIVELY get them from Him DAILY. Seriously, DAILY!
And we PRAY DAILY, we must seek our SAVIOR DAILY and seek Him in faith, in hope, in His righteousness, in HIS giving us the HOLY SPIRIT, and we must BUY this from HIM. To BUY this means it is something we are seeking to obtain desperately enough to pay for it, it is a want, a need, we must give all our ourselves to HIM, for HIM to give all of HIMSELF to us. He will not force anything of HIMSELF upon us, not a single bit. But we must BUY of Him all that would keep us from being lukewarm, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
PLEASE LORD, we would be on FIRE for You! We don't want to be lukewarm! We don't want to be blind! Please, Lord, please we don't want to be poor or naked! We want to be RICH IN YOU! By YOUR LOVE, we thank You! We praise Your Holy NAME!
fervour is to retire from God. He can, and does, tolerate many things in the way of
infirmity and error in His children. He can, and will pardon sin when the penitent prays, but two things are intolerable to Him -- insincerity and lukewarmness.
Lack of heart and lack of heat are two things He loathes, and to the Laodiceans He said, in terms of unmistakable severity and condemnation: "I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth."
This was God's expressed judgment on the lack of fire in one of the Seven Churches, and it is His indictment against individual Christians for the fatal want of sacred zeal.
In prayer, fire is the motive power. Religious principles which do not emerge in flame,
have neither force nor effect.
Flame is the wing on which faith ascends; fervency is the soul of prayer.
It was the "fervent, effectual prayer" which availed much.
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian
experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything, rather than a feeble
flame; and it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals, when the surrounding atmosphere is
frigid or lukewarm.
True prayer, must be aflame.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 17)
*******
'I will spue thee out of My mouth.'
He will THROW US UP! He will VOMIT US OUT! Why? Because we do not believe we have an real NEED of our SAVIOR. Seriously. We may mouth the words but our hearts are saying otherwise. It is our heart, it is our desire for Christ that matters. He would rather we be HOT or COLD, but not this LUKEWARM being who is neither. Lukewarm and believing they have no need of Christ, seriously. They believe they are rich in and of their own accord, when they are destitute! They believe they can see when they are really blinded by their own delusions. They believe they are clothed but they are really stark naked! What sort of delusions are they under that that can believe all that when it's untrue?
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked
They don't KNOW they are WRETCHED, they are MISERABLE, they are POOR, they are BLIND, and they are NAKED. This could be US! Because these people don't know their own awful condition!
Are we those blind, wretched people?! Are WE?! GOD FORBID!
We need to BUY from our SAVIOR that which will keep us from being those MISERABLE people!
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
How do we buy anything of our Savior? What sort of currency can we use? FAITH!
Our currency is believing in CHRIST FOR ALL THINGS, FOR ALL OUR NEEDS! HE gives us the GOLD, He gives us the WHITE RAIMENT, He gives us the EYESALVE. Just like forgiveness we cannot earn these things! We have to get them from our SAVIOR! We have to ACTIVELY get them from Him DAILY. Seriously, DAILY!
And we PRAY DAILY, we must seek our SAVIOR DAILY and seek Him in faith, in hope, in His righteousness, in HIS giving us the HOLY SPIRIT, and we must BUY this from HIM. To BUY this means it is something we are seeking to obtain desperately enough to pay for it, it is a want, a need, we must give all our ourselves to HIM, for HIM to give all of HIMSELF to us. He will not force anything of HIMSELF upon us, not a single bit. But we must BUY of Him all that would keep us from being lukewarm, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
PLEASE LORD, we would be on FIRE for You! We don't want to be lukewarm! We don't want to be blind! Please, Lord, please we don't want to be poor or naked! We want to be RICH IN YOU! By YOUR LOVE, we thank You! We praise Your Holy NAME!
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