The Words of Jesus Christ Page 89 Prayer (cont'd) Prayer and Vocation
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10 PRAYER (cont'd)
1 Prayer (cont'd)
[The disciples when they could
not cure an epileptic: Why could not we cast it out?]
Because of your little faith: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as
a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to
yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
(Some ancient authorities add: But this kind goeth not out save by prayer
and fasting.)
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[To two blind men seeking their sight:] Believe ye that I am able to do
this?
[Yea, Lord.]
According to your faith be it done unto you. m0928-9
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a
publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank
thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or
even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I
get. But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me a
sinner. I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather
than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he
that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
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.... pray for them that persecute you; .... m0544/l0628
2 Prayer and Vocation
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.
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Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching
anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which
is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there
am I in the midst of them.
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to
the Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name,
that will I do. If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you
forever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it
beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with
you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it
shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much
fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples. Even as the Father hath loved me, I
also have loved you: abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and
abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be
in you, and that your joy may be fulfilled. This is my commandment, that ye
love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye
do the things which I command you. No longer do I call you servants; for the
servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for
all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you. Ye did
not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and
bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask
of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you,
that ye love one another.
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And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If
ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that
your joy may be fulfilled.
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In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will
pray the Father for you; for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have
loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
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I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast
given me; for they are thine: ....
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