Category Archives: prayer

Prayer-Disappointments

Posted on June 20, 2014 by mhrockness

  “The Noria in the garden has taught a prayer-lesson today.  At the very first turn of the wheel that works it, a cupful of the clear cold water deep down is dipped up – but it does not reach … Continue reading →

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Praying Scriptures

Posted on June 14, 2014 by mhrockness

“I have been praying the Lord’s Prayer with special intention for Ali.  It is such a wonderful vehicle for intercession if one puts it in the third person instead of in the first: ‘That the Father’s name may be hallowed … Continue reading →

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Vibrations

Posted on June 6, 2014 by mhrockness

Each prayer-beat down here vibrates up to the very throne of God, and does its work through that throne on the principalities and powers around us. . .   We can never tell which prayer will liberate the answer, but … Continue reading →

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Fire Upwards!

Posted on May 30, 2014 by mhrockness

“A story of the wars of the first Napoleon has often come back to me.  He was trying in a winter campaign, to cut off the march of the enemy across a frozen lake.  The gunners were told to fire … Continue reading →

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Pilgrimage of Prayer

Posted on May 24, 2014 by mhrockness

“The days have seen the completing of another of the longings that have been brooding with its stress on the need of making Mission Houses to be houses of prayer, not just centers of activity.  The longing had shaped itself … Continue reading →

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Atmosphere of God’s Revealing

Posted on January 24, 2014 by mhrockness

“Obedience is the atmosphere of God’s revealing.” There is a catchy little chorus with a disarming message:  “God loves me just the way I am today, but much too much to let me stay that way.”  I rest in the … Continue reading →

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Why Pray?

Posted on November 15, 2013 by mhrockness

“It has come these days with a new light and power, that the first thing we have to see to, as we draw nearer to God day by day, is that ‘our fellowship is with the Father and with His … Continue reading →

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Sing!

Posted on November 24, 2012 by mhrockness

“I have been finding a great blessedness in these last few months in definitely obeying the command ‘Let them sing aloud upon their God!’ – I remembered Pearsall Smith half a lifetime ago, saying in a meeting – at the first … Continue reading →

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Standing in Spirit

Posted on November 10, 2012 by mhrockness

“‘Prayer is to us the opening of the sluice-gate between my soul and the Infinite.’  I came on those words of Tennyson’s the other day, and they came back again and again today with a special sense of the reality … Continue reading →

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Soul Food

Posted on October 5, 2012 by mhrockness

“When Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he took the veil off.  Bare absolute contact with God’s Presence – if our times alone with Him were but that all the time, they would be mighty in … Continue reading →

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