<TITLE>05. Par 44-53</TITLE>L-44 As, we have just, our little senses of humor and of expressing. We're children, and we rally and talk as children. And we... Even God has a sense of humor, you know.

L-45 So let us bow our heads now and speak to Him before we read His Word. While we have our heads bowed, is there those in here who does have a request for prayer? Let it be known by your lifted hand. God bless you. Let us bow our heads now.

L-46   Our Heavenly Father, we are coming into Thy Presence now as we bow our heads and our hearts in humility. We are approaching by faith, beyond the moon and stars, to the Throne of God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, because we are sure that if we come in His Name that You're going to hear us. We will be accepted in Your Presence through His Name. What a privilege that it is, to know that we are accepted in the Presence of God, through the Name of Jesus Christ.

L-47 And He told us, Father, that whatever we asked in His Name, that You, in Your abundance of mercy and grace, would pardon our sins and would give to us our desire. Father, we're so happy for that. There's not another thing that we could think of, that would be a higher privilege, than to have this privilege.

L-48 It would be a privilege for we American citizens to approach our president. And all we'd have to do, to go through, to get to approach the president for just a moment of time, to take up a moment of his busy schedule. We would have to go through offices, and--and every way, to get to come, and have to state our reasons, and--and would have to be examined before we'd have that privilege.

L-49   But, to think of it: the God, Creator of heavens and earth, is waiting for us to approach. We, unworthy sinners, He is waiting for us to approach in the Name of the Lord Jesus, with the assurance that we will be granted what we ask for, if we can only believe that we will. Then, we'd watch our requests very close and know that we would not speak foolishly or ask foolishly. And if we would, we pray You pardon us, Lord.

L-50 And we're asking tonight for mercy upon each one of these hands that was up. May their requests be granted to them, Lord. May they feel assurance in their heart right now, that while we're in Your Presence. That, when we open our eyes and raise up our heads from the dust, from which You molded us, may we feel that anchored assurance that we have been granted that what we asked for.

L-51   We would ask for those, Lord, perhaps in the building tonight, that has never come into Your Presence, by the way of prayer, to ask pardoning for sin. May this be the night that something will be said, or something done, or some acting of the Holy Spirit that would cause their hearts to quiver and ask that pardoning grace.

L-52 Heal the sick. Lord, we pray that You'll grant to them, tonight, the assurance that the prayer of faith is now being prayed. "And it shall save the sick." For we could say, and add this, that that's THUS SAITH THE LORD, for it is written in the Word of the Lord.

L-53   Now, Father, we pray that You'll bless these little comments that's been provided here today for Your Word. Pull from this reading a context to every heart. And if I should fail in any way, Lord, and miss the unction of the Holy Spirit, may He in Divine grace go with the Word and place it in the heart where it was supposed to be. And may we tonight see the hand of the Almighty stretch across this building, and do things that would be the exceeding abundant above all that we could do or think. When we leave tonight and go to our different homes, may we be able to say like those that came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?" For we ask it in His Name. Amen.


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