Luke 11:9-10 And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.… You look at them, and you think of those better words, "They saw His face as it had been the face of an angel." 3. And yet the reflex blessing of prayer is as nothing, absolutely nothing, compared with its chief blessing — and with that I wish to close — that prayer has power with God. I do not shrink from the words. The prophet Hosea, describing that night of wrestling of Jacob with God, uses these words — you will find them in the Revised Version — "In his manhood he had power with God." Do you know what that power was? It was the power of a lame man wrestling in prayer — "I will not let Thee go until Thou bless me." It was the power that every soul in prayer has with God to-day. (G. S. Barrett, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. |
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