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Mediation and Prayer |
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| With what adversary does man have to contend? |
| "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8. |
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| When is a man tempted? |
"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." James 1:14. |
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| Is there still another obstacle to man's spiritual advancement? |
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15. |
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| Can anyone overcome these enemies in his own strength alone? |
| "I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:5. |
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| What is required on our part if we are kept from our foes? |
| "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matt. 26:41. |
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| How much should we pray? |
| "Pray without ceasing." 1 Thess. 5:17. |
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| On what occasions did David receive strength and encouragement? |
"When I remember Thee upon my bed, and meditate on Thee in the night watches." Ps. 63:6.
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| What did he say of the man who was truly blessed? |
"His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night." Ps. 1:2. |
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| Will such a condition of mind be distasteful to one who really loves God? |
| "My meditation of Him shall be sweet." Ps. 104:34. |
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| How long ought one to continue in this constant devotion? |
"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing." 1 Thess. 5:16, 17. |
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| What is the special duty of those who live in the time when the Lord's coming is expected? |
| "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is... Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." Mark 13:33-37. |
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| As the Lord's coming draws near, what will make the duty of prayer and watchfulness more imperative? |
| "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath hut a short time." Rev. 12:12. |
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| Can we at that time have all the help we desire to withstand our enemies? |
| "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you." John 16:23. |
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| If help does not come when it is first asked, what should one do? |
| "And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily." Luke 18:7, 8. "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." Ps. 27:14. |
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| What promise is vouchsafed to those who are found watching when the Lord comes? |
| "Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." Luke 12:37. |
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