e down in answer to your petition?
Come and _ask it of God_. Kneel down and pray for it in a single
definite sentence. When you have done so, kneel still in faith,
believing in God who answers. Believe that you do now receive what you
have prayed: believe that you have received. If you find it difficult to
do this, kneel still, and say that you do it on the strength of His own
word. If it cost time, and struggle, and doubt--fear not; at His feet,
looking up into His face, faith will come. "Believe that you have
received": at His bidding you dare claim the answer. Begin in that
faith, even though it be feeble, a new prayer-life, with this one
thought as its strength: "You have asked and received grace in Christ to
prepare you, step by step, to be faithful in prayer and intercession.
The more simply you hold to this, and expect the Holy Spirit to work it
in you, the more surely and fully will the word be made true to you: Ye
shall have it. God Himself who gave the answer will work it in you."

A PLEA FOR MORE PRAYER

CHAPTER X

The Spirit of Supplication

"I will pour upon the house of David the Spirit of grace and of
supplication."--ZECH. xii. 10.

"The Spirit also helpeth our infirmity; for we know not how to pray
as we ought: but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. And He that searcheth the hearts
knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh
intercession for the saints according to God."--ROM. viii. 26, 27.

"With all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication
for all the saints."--EPH. vi. 18.

"Praying in the Holy Spirit."--JUDE 20.

The Holy Spirit has been given to every child of God to be his life. He
dwells in him, not as a separate Being in one part of his nature, but as
his very life. He is the Divine power or energy by which his life is
maintained and strengthened. All that a believer is called to be or to
do, the Holy Spirit can and will work in him. If he does not know or
yield to the Holy Guest, the Blessed Spirit cannot work, and his life is
a sickly one, full of failure and of sin. As he yields, and waits, and
obeys the leading of the Spirit, God works in him all that is pleasing
in His sight.

This Holy Spirit is, in the first place, a Spirit of prayer. He was
promised as a "Spirit of grace and supplica