ee it--I believe it.
All can be different. Or, rather, I see Him, I believe Him. "_My God
will hear me!_" Yes, me, even me! Commonplace and insignificant though I
be, filling but a very little place, so that I will scarce be missed
when I go--even I have access to this Infinite God, with the confidence
that He heareth me. One with Christ, led by the Holy Spirit, I dare to
say: "I will pray for others, for I am sure my God will listen to me:
'_My God will hear me._'" What a blessed prospect before me--every
earthly and spiritual anxiety exchanged for the peace of God, who cares
for all and hears prayer. What a blessed prospect in my work--to know
that even when the answer is long delayed, and there is a call for much
patient, persevering prayer, the truth remains infallibly sure--"_My God
will hear me!_"

And what a blessed prospect for Christ's Church if we could but all give
prayer its place, give faith in God its place, or, rather, _give the
prayer-hearing God His place_! Is not this the one great thing, those,
who in some little measure begin to see the urgent need of prayer, ought
in the first place to pray for. When God, at the first, time after time,
poured forth the Spirit on His praying people, He laid down the law for
all time: as much of prayer, so much of the Spirit. Let each one who can
say, "_My God will hear me_," join in the fervent supplication, that
throughout the Church that truth may be restored to its true place, and
the blessed prospect will be realised: a praying Church endued with the
power of the Holy Ghost.

6. "_My God will hear me._" _What a need of Divine teaching!_--We need
this, both to enable us to hold this word in living faith, and to make
full use of it in intercession. It has been said, and it cannot be said
too often or too earnestly, that the one thing needful for the Church of
our day is, the power of the Holy Spirit. It is just because this is
so, from the Divine side, that we may also say as truly that, from the
human side, the one thing needful is, more prayer, more believing,
persevering prayer. In speaking of lack of the Spirit's power, and the
condition for receiving it, someone used the expression--the block is
not on the perpendicular, but on the horizontal line. It is to be feared
that it is on both. There is much to be confessed and taken away in us
if the Spirit is to work freely. But it is specially on the
perpendicular line that the block is--the upward look, and the d