Discourses on Prayer (Classic Reprint): View of the Covenant of Works, From the Sacred Records; A Memorial Concerning Personal and Family Fasting and Humiliation - Tapa blanda

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There are natural desires, which are the mere product of our own spirits, offered unto God, but not regarded as prayer (hos. Vii. By the Lord. These may be not only for temporal things but for Spiritual also, as those who said to Christ, Lord evermore give us this bread. A natural man, from a gift of prayer, may seek grace and glory, as a bridge to lead him over the waters of Wrath; but coming only from their own Spirits, such a prayer is not acceptable.
There are spiritual desires, Zech. Xii. 10; which the saints breathe out unto God, having them first breathed into them by the Spirit, Rom. Viii. 26. And these may be for temporal things, as well as spiritual, accepted, seeing they are put up in a. Spiritual man ner. These are always sincere and fervent, so as the soul earnestly craves the things sought.
Thirdly, The matter of prayer, or what we are to petition and seek for. These are, the things that are agreeable to God's will. To pray for the fulfilling of unlawful desires, is horrid, Jam. Iv. 3. But the will of God is the rule of our prayers, I John v. 14, This is the confidence that we have in him. That if we ask anything ac cording to his will, he heareth us. We find the will of God in his commands and promises. Whatever God has commanded us to seek, whatever he has promised, that we may and ought to pray for. These are, Spiritual mercies, grace, glory, the increase of grace, comforts, &c. Temporal mercies, health, strength, &c., mercies relating to our bodies and temporal estate in the world.
Some have no freedom to bring their temporal concerns to their prayers. Ans. That we may and ought to do it, is plain.
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