The ultra-dispensationalist, like the modernist, does great harm to the faith. Those who chop up the Bible saying most of it is for the Jews, part was for a transitional period, and only a few of the epistles are really written for Christians today, mutilate the Bible and thereby mutilate the basis of faith. God's promises are yea and amen, but they do no good to the one who does not believe them and apply them to himself. - John R. Rice
Proverbs 28:9 says, "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination." There is no such thing as right praying, prayer that really gets things from God, the prayer of faith, except as it fits in with the spirit of God's Word. To become familiar with the Bible, with a heart-familiarity, is to become familiar with God; Who He is, how He acts, and what He has promised to do. Let no Christian ever believe he will grow strong in faith except as he grows strong in a love for and in enjoyment of and in a heart-surrender to the teachings of the Bible. - John R. Rice
Children, in their asking of parents, go more by their wants and seeming needs than by a perfect understanding of the resources and plans of their parents. And so we frail children of God have a right to come in our ignorance, in our poverty, in our littleness and unworthiness to ask of God all we want and all we need. We have been taken into God's own family. We are the dear children of His heart. God has bought us to Himself at such infinite price in the death of His Son that it is shameful and wicked to think He would be reluctant in His giving or unwilling to answer prayers. So when there is no known reason why our request would be against the will of God, we should in most cases presume that it is in His will. If after honest searching of our motives and an honest examination of the Word of God, and a quiet listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit to find what kind of things please God and will be according to His dear will--after that, if we have no rebuke from God or no leading that the thing we desire is against His will, we have a right to come boldly with our requests. For when a born-again child of God comes to his own loving heavenly Father, crying out for his heart's desire, then the presumption is in favor of his getting what he desires. - John R. Rice
There is something in praying that tends constantly to correct all the hindrances to prayer. Anyone who consciously, earnestly seeks God, has already turned in his heart toward the way out of his troubles. And if he will follow it honestly and earnestly, he will be led out into the clear light of sweet fellowship with God and unhindered prayer! - John R. Rice
Nowhere in the world is the conscience so alive as in the place of prayer! How many, many times I have found it true, that I did not know anything was wrong between me and God, I did not know He was grieved with me, until I began to pray; and there the blessed Spirit of God began to point out the things that were wrong. Many others can live with their conscience all right, except when they try to pray! John R. Rice
Nowhere in the world is the conscience so alive as in the place of prayer! How many, many times I have found it true, that I did not know anything was wrong between me and God, I did not know He was grieved with me, until I began to pray; and there the blessed Spirit of God began to point out the things that were wrong. Many others can live with their conscience all right, except when they try to pray! John R. Rice
I mean no unkindness to good and earnest people who are anxious for sinners to be "genuinely saved." I am anxious, too, for them to be saved. But I remind you that the genuineness of their salvation does not depend on how long they pray. Where God does the saving, He does it genuinely. A lady not long ago said about another, "I believe that she is thoroughly saved." Well, thoroughly saved is the only kind of saved there is. God never does half-way save anybody, and God saves everyone who trusts Christ for salvation and does it thoroughly and eternally. John R. Rice
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