It is not always possible to get to
a prayer meeting these busy days, and so
much to be done.
But I wonder could we dine wherever we
may be.
The Lord knows there's no respect for the
places.
If you're driving your car along the road
there, you can just bring your way like
that.
But it says watch and pray, so keep
your hands open when you're at that job
in the car.
Or boy, you'll be an undertaker for a
mature youth.
Would you not sit down and say...
It'll do your body a whole lot of
good, it'll do your soul a whole lot
of good, and it'll bring blessing upon the
meeting night by night.
Would you do that?
Now you try to do that, you'll find
the devil will begin to get busy.
Something will happen at the door.
Telephone will begin to ring.
The pot will begin to boil.
Oh, that dirty pig, he'll be at anything
to keep you back from praying.
The devil's not concerned much about preaching.
He's not concerned when the weakest sits on
his knees.
And he'll move worse than hell if he
can only just keep...
We'll talk to our neighbors across the fence
there, across the head, for at least this
week.
And just give yourself 10 or 15 minutes
in the morning to prayer.
Would you do that?
You men at your work, you can be
busy with your hands there, and yet you
can give your heart.
And as we wait upon the Lord who
tells us, glory to God, there's no knowing
what He'll do if we'll only give Him
half a chance.
So would you do that?
We do greedily covet your prayers, and we
desire that you'll join with us along that
line.
So at half past seven every night, those
of you who can manage, you'll gather in
here, and then we'll gather to have the
meeting every night.
If the Lord tarry, He may not tarry,
and He may not let us get at
it either.
I thought sometime ago there that maybe my
day was done and over, and God knows
how long He may keep us out of
deal.
You know, dear friends, before the Lord died,
He left us a good deal of instructions.
And a very good many things He gave
us instruction concerning.
The largest portion of the instructions was regarding
the Holy Spirit.
What He would do, what He would come,
and that He would come.
And what He would do with all His
followers and all His believers.
But He took up the matter of prayer
too.
And He has left us instruction regarding prayer.
You know when people come to die, or
imagine they're coming to die, they're very sober.
Everybody else around them is very sober about
it.
And whatever conversation they may be engaged in,
it'll be a sober thing, a real thing.
And you couldn't imagine it'd be frivolous or
untruthful.
You'd believe that it'd be sincere and truthful,
whatever the conversation would be.
Now Jesus Christ, before He died, He left
us instructions regarding the matter of prayer.
And I want to talk to you while
this evening on this matter of prayer.
In John chapter 14 and verse 13.
Now here's what He says.
Whatsoever ye shall ask.
In my name.
That will I do.
That the Father may be glorified to the
Son.
Ask anything.
In my name.
And I'll do it.
I believe He meant what He said, don't
you?
I believe He said what He meant.
And I believe He knew what He was
talking about.
Some people say things they don't know what
they're talking about.
But Jesus knew what He was talking about.
When you take the gospel of John 13.
These are the final farewell words.
And these words are the words of Jesus.
Whatsoever ye shall ask.
In my name.
I'll do it.
Ask anything.
Anything.
In my name.
And I'll do it.
Now some of you are looking at me
there.
With a way of scredulity or deranged.
Is Jesus Christ a liar?
Are you questioning His words?
Whatever ye ask.
I'll do it.
Ask anything.
I'll do it.
It's a lie.
Is He telling the truth?
We all say we believe He's telling the
truth.
Well is He telling the truth now?
Whatsoever ye shall ask.
Now don't boil it down.
Whatever is just like whosoever.
Whosoever means everybody and excludes nobody.
Whatsoever means everything and excludes nothing.
Whatsoever.
Whatsoever ye shall ask.
I'll do it.
Ask anything.
Now don't boil it.
Anything means anything.
Whatsoever means whatsoever.
A fellow gets up to me and says
he denies the deity of Christ and denies
His word has been infallible and inerrant.
Well I feel sorry for that kind of
a fool.
But when a fool tells me he believes
it and then begins to tell me this
is something, this means something else.
Whether he's got a collar turned up at
the back of his neck or a black
nightshirt on, I'm watching him.
As sure as you live, he's going to
put it.
And you hear them saying it's
either true or it's a lie.
And to be able to talk along that
line is to handle the word of God
deceitfully.
And how many are doing it?
And then they'll say well you'll get something,
you'll not get what you ask.
But he says whatsoever ye ask.
You'll not get something, you'll get what you
ask.
He says if your son asks bread, will
you give him a stone?
If he asks fish, will you give him
a scorpion?
If he asks an egg, will you give
him a snake?
And if ye, knowing how to give good...
Whatever ye ask.
Now don't mind it, whatever means whatever.
A pair of shoes, a dress on your
back, a hat on your head, a job,
healing of your body, sanctifying your soul, saving
your...
Whatsoever.
Don't, don't, don't boil it, whatever ye do.
It means exactly what it says.
Whatsoever.
Ask anything.
Anything.
He says I'll do it.
Well boys, doesn't look like that in your
experience.
Many of our experience is this.
How many times have ye asked, what did
ye get?
How many things have ye asked for and
never received?
That's a problem.
And it's that big a problem that they've
given up praying in.
But in the church up in Palomino there,
they have...
And ye meditate.
So imagine, sitting there at the table, and
the wife saying, you're not going to get
what you're asking a meal here, you're going
to meditate.
When I asked my mother for a...
I wanted peace of mind.
Whatsoever ye ask.
Ask anything.
And I'll do it.
Well, has that happened in your life?
He that asketh, findeth.
He that seeketh.
He that gathereth.
It'll be opened.
And yet, what a gulf there is between
that and our own experience along the line
of prayer.
And mind ye, I'm not talking to but
unconverted people now.
I'm talking about those of us who are
washed with the blood and born of the
Spirit.
Why, how long this matter?
Why have ye given up praying in your
life?
If I asked today, how many of you
spent ten minutes alone in prayer to rise
to your feet?
Boy, it would show you what a desert
we've got here.
Ten minutes in prayer.
I had a brother-in-law, a professor
in a college, and when I was running
a church in Scotland yonder, had a night
of prayer once every month.
Half night of prayer once a week.
He said, what on earth do you do?
He says, I've never spent a night in
prayer.
There are multitudes of the Lord's people and
that's what they think about prayer.
Some kind of a lovely habit.
Some kind of nice thing.
Some kind of religious thing.
But you don't get anywhere.
Don't get anything.
So they quit the prayer.
When is the night used to be the
church's prayer meeting night?
See what happens now.
It's generally a picture show.
Maybe a missionary picture show, but it's a
missionary picture show.
Maybe a lecture.
Maybe a Bible reading.
Anything but prayer.
Some of us when we get into a
corner and get into trouble, we'll say, well,
I suppose I could do nothing else but
pray.
That's what we think about.
Now, I'd like to rub a whole lot
of that in, dear friends.
I was hearing about a person that was
preaching one time, and he said lovely things.
But as I listened, I said, yes, but
he's not rubbing them in.
But this is a booth of the Salvation
Army.
She said she believed the Holy Ghost to
convict, but he's not rubbing it in.
Whatsoever he shall ask.
Whatsoever.
He hears.
Whatsoever.
Ask anything.
Anything.
And it's yours.
He says, I'll do it.
And he's either a liar or he's good.
He means it or he doesn't.
He can do it or he can't.
But that's what he said.
Those were his dying words.
These disciples were being comforted.
He was going to leave them.
And he says, whatsoever you ask.
Whatsoever you ask.
In my name.
I'll do it.
Ask anything.
I'm rubbing it in.
Ask anything.
He says, I'll give it to you.
Well, dear friends, when I was a good
deal younger than I am now, and when
I was beginning to preach.
That's a long time too.
Well, I was going to quit preaching and
praying, or else solve this problem.
I was going to quit.
This praying and praying and praying and praying.
Nothing happened.
Or getting anything that you want.
Wasn't good.
But you're wasting your time.
Making a fool out of yourself.
And I wanted to be in an honest
job.
And I couldn't stand as a preacher behind
the desk and talk about praying and praying
and didn't believe in it.
I was honest enough with that.
Go and earn an honest living.
But I got a solution.
And that solution has studied me nearly 60
years.
Preaching up and down the country nearly every
country in the world.
About 12 times around the world.
Help me, Father.
I believe literally the words of Jesus.
Whatsoever ye shall ask, ask anything, and I'll
do it.
Do you notice the sublime simplicity of the
conditions?
You get some of these big rich fellows
that leave a trust or a...
And boy, you see them legally.
And look.
Jesus says, whatsoever ye ask, ask anything, and
then listen.
Here's the condition.
In my name.
Nine letters.
Three wee words.
If you've got enough brains to give you
a headache, in my name.
That's the condition.
Whatsoever ye ask, in my name.
Ask anything, in my name.
So you'll get it.
In these farewell words, seven times he uses
that in my name.
That name had never been heard in heaven
before.
About brains.
Something new.
Jesus Christ has brought something to pass.
Whatsoever ye shall ask, ask anything in my
name.
In my name.
And I will do it.
Not a dirty word to you, friend.
Not a dirty word.
He'll do it.
Now here's what...
Here's the solution that I had, and have,
and that's kept me going.
What do you mean by in my name?
What do you mean?
Well, there are three legitimate ways that you
can use it.
Three legitimate ways.
There is, first of all, the filial way.
There is, second, the marital way.
And third, the commercial way.
Now let us look at it a wee
while.
The filial way.
The family way.
My name's William Pattison Nicholson.
Our Mr. Pattison was sixty-six years minister
of the Trinity Church.
He baptized me in Bangor here.
But the last before he passed away.
And they called me after that old fella.
William Pattison Nicholson.
I'm not here under a nondecluse.
I'm not in Bangor, Sean Jackson and Jimmy
Thompson when I get down yonder to baptize.
Or Billy Morgan or something like that.
No.
Everywhere I go, I've got the family name.
Legitimate name.
I've been raised to it twice.
I was born in the family.
How do I know?
My mother said one day, she says, there's
your father.
About that.
And I've never seen any fella stand up
and challenge that.
That I didn't bring a little protest.
I'm not an illegitimate.
I'm well born.
And all I have is the word of
a sinner.
Saved by grace.
God be with me woman, my mother.
Dead sure.
Well satisfied.
Family name.
I have a right to use it.
22nd of May, 1819, down
the old home on Princeton Road.
In a chair in the kitchen waiting for
breakfast.
I'd been wandering around the world and spending
my life in the riotous living.
And I came home.
Just about a fortnight home.
And I was sitting there smoking.
Reading the paper.
My mother was getting ready for the breakfast.
And suddenly.
Suddenly.
Consciously.
Powerfully.
Glory to God eternally.
I was converted in a moment's time.
In a moment's time.
One moment I was a child of the
devil going to hell.
And the next moment a child of God.
And an heir of God in a joint
heir with Christ.
Don't look at me, I'll tell you God's
truth.
And I became a child of God.
And I'm in the family.
And I have a right to the name.
I have a right to the name.
Tell me dear friend, is this solving your
problem?
Oh God, my Father.
Oh God in heaven.
Father, would you help me?
Would you do this?
Would you do that?
And nothing happened.
Are you in the family?
Have you been born again?
If you haven't.
You're tugging at the wrong skirt.
You're chopping at the wrong door.
God's not your Father.
Oh, I thought.
I thought God was the Father of everything.
Hold on your leg.
I go down the street there and a
wee fellow comes and tugs my shirt.
Coat tail and he says, Daddy.
Oh you brat, you go over there.
I'm going to do that.
Oh yes.
Isn't God the Father?
No, no, no.
God's not the Father of the devil.
There's not a damned child.
And there never will be a damned child
in heaven.
And there's not a child that God's on
the road to heaven.
Who's on the road to heaven?
Children of the devil.
Who's on the road to heaven?
Children of God.
Have you been born again?
It's just as necessary to be born again
to get into God's family as it was
to me to be born again.
There's no other way but birth.
No substitute.
You can be baptized, catechized, confirmed, vaccinated.
That doesn't change you from one family to
the other.
You may be as upright as those who
put pillars.
You may be as clean as a house
too.
You may be as decent and respectable as
anybody that ever lived.
You can pray like an outpour.
You can be as generous as anybody could
be.
That doesn't make you a child of God.
Have you been born again?
Jesus says you must.
An imperative necessity.
You must be born again.
Born again.
And when you're born again, then of course,
you're in the family.
You've got God as your Father.
Jesus Christ as your Savior and Elder Brother.
The Comforter as the Sanctifier and Guiding Friend.
You're in the family.
I want to make that clear, dear friends.
There's a queer lot of people and they're
going to hell.
Don't do it.
There's a queer lot of people on the
road to hell.
Think they're going to hell?
Just because they're respectable and decent in church
and all the rest of it?
No, no.
Jesus said, many will say unto me in
that day, Lord, now listen, we have preached
in thy name.
Do you mean to tell me every preacher
goes to hell?
He does if he's not born again.
And Jesus says there's many of them not
born again.
But they're using the name.
Preaching in the name.
Orthodox Christ materialists.
Good Baptists.
Fine Lutherans.
Episcopalians.
Roman Catholic Jews or Gentiles.
Fine!
But you see they're not in the name.
They're not in the promise.
Many.
Many, says Jesus.
Many.
From the pulpit to the pit.
From the church to the caverns of the
dam.
From the sound singing to the weeping and
the wailing and the gnawing of teeth.
That's a terrible thing, isn't it?
So are you born again, dear friend?
You've been born of God-fearing parents?
You've been baptized in the covenant grace?
You've been brought up in a decent, respectable,
religious way?
You've joined church, Sunday school, choir member?
Well, fine.
Latherer, a deacon of the church?
Pillar?
I'd better get that pillar.
Never been born again.
Never been saved.
Never been converted.
I was holding a meeting in the Trans
-Basilian Church in White Inchin.
And in the after-meeting I noticed a
lady.
And after a while I stepped up and
I said, if you'll just stay to one
side and pray, I'll...
And I took her hand and covered it.
I said, ma'am, I'm awful sorry for
you.
Must have been some terrible tragedy in your
life.
Yes, it is.
I'm awful sorry for you.
I'd like to help you.
She quietened down a wee bit.
Says, could you tell me what's wrong?
Oh, she says, I've quit going to church.
I'm sure you have.
So would I if I was in your
shoes.
I've quit praying.
Oh, she says, I know.
I feel about that too.
I don't believe anymore.
Aye, indeed, she says, I'm sure you do.
I just would feel that way if what
you had, what I'll hear about, I'd just
feel the same way.
Say, what was it?
It was in the first war.
She was a widow.
She's only one boy.
And he was caught in the draft.
And it broke her heart.
When he left the home that morning, she
got back in there and after a while
she just, she said accidentally opened the bag
and she came across these verses.
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that
will I do.
Ask anything in my name, I'll do it.
She says, Father, I trust you for that.
She said he's dead and buried in France.
She says, aye, sister, will you tell me
something?
Were you ever converted?
Are you saved?
Have you been born again?
No, she couldn't say that.
I'm a church member.
Say my prayers.
Say, who are you praying to?
Our Father in Heaven.
Oh, no.
Your Father's not in Heaven.
Say, your Father's the old devil.
Not God.
Well, she says, isn't God the Father of
everything?
Oh, no.
God's not the Father of cats and dogs
and quakes and cows and horses and fleas
and bugs.
No, He's not that.
He's the Creator.
He's the Creator of everybody.
But He's not the Father of everybody.
He's only the Father of those who are
born again, have been converted by faith in
Jesus Christ.
And, sister, maybe there's where your problem's been.
Oh, I've prayed and prayed.
What's the good of it?
I don't go to a permit anymore.
I don't follow my friends.
I may be put through a wee bit
of a time again, but that's nothing.
Nothing to it.
Does this solve your problem?
Have you ever been saved?
Are you a converted woman or a man?
Are you born again?
You couldn't be born again and not know
it.
You couldn't be saved and not know it.
If you don't know or not sure, you
can be dead sure that you're not.
But, thank God, you can be born again
suddenly and lead the family of the dead
and instantaneously become a child of God so
that this very minute you can look up
and say, My Father, My Father.
Which I didn't have.
You have a legitimate use to the name.
But if you're not born again, you have
no right to the name.
You have no right to the name at
all.
Maybe that's where you are.
You've been praying and praying and praying this,
that or the other, but you're not born
again.
You're tugging at the wrong skirt, chomping at
the wrong door.
And then the second way, if we're to
use this name, it's the filial way.
We've got to be in the family.
Family business.
Second, it's the matrimonial way.
Well, my wife and I got married, they
called her Collette.
That is the name.
C-O-L-L-E-T-E.
Fine old English name.
But I say, since we got married, I
haven't heard that name used.
I haven't seen that name written down.
When she writes a letter, it's Nicholson.
And boy, when she writes a check, she
puts the right name on it.
Don't you forget it.
She has been legally married.
Lawfully wed.
And it was a good wedding.
It was enforced.
You know there's a lot of people and
they get engaged to be married.
But they don't get married.
Something happens.
And there's a lot of people and they
got engaged to the Lord.
Maybe in a mission meeting and evangelistic meeting
or some service or some experience or another.
They took a notion of the Lord.
Made a profession.
And they became engaged.
But they'd never been married.
Never been married.
Just exposed.
Engaged.
Never been married.
I wonder, dear friend, does that touch your
problem at all?
You've been praying nothing happens?
Asking and not receiving?
Seeking and not finding?
Knocking and no door open?
Have you been married?
Are you really wed to the Lord?
Strange mystical union.
Are you really wed to the Lord?
Are you His bride?
Or did you just get engaged?
And then maybe you got persecuted or something
happened or some experience came in.
Sorrow and tragedy came in.
And the Lord tells us that because of
these things it faded away.
And as you are faded away, you don't
bother about praying much.
You don't know any intimacy about the Lord
and communion.
You're not married.
And then, dear friend, some of you, but
you're divorced by the Lord.
See, the Lord has made allowance in marital
affairs.
If you can't get together, you can be
divorced.
That is, your communion is destroyed, but not
your union.
When you're married, according to the Bible, you're
married forever.
While life shall last.
If either one dies, then that relationship does
not exist.
You can be married again.
But while both of you live, and you
marry, you're living in adultery.
You're a whore among us.
That's what the Bible says.
How many are like that today?
Well, dear friends, God believes in divorce still.
Friendship with the Word is enmity with God.
If you be a friend of the Word,
you're His enemy.
And the Lord says that if you've got
into that state, flirting with the Word, card
parties, cocktail parties, tobacco chewing and smoking, your
picture shows, the world in it, and you're
flirting with the Word, other lovers, other loss
in health, is divorce.
There's no communion between you now, but you're
still His.
You're still His.
If divorce, if divorce here means the annihilation,
then you're going to the place where you...
When you're in a church, when a woman
gets separated from her husband legally, she can't
benefit in that man's estate anymore.
That's stopped.
All communion and communication is stopped legally.
And when you flirt with the Word, and
you're dancing and carrying on with the Word,
and it's secret societies and lodges, and one
thing and another, you're divorced.
No contact with Him.
You can pray to the crack of doom
until your face is black.
He'll not hear you.
He says, touch not the unclean thing.
Come out from among them if it separates.
And He says, I will be a father
unto you, and ye shall be My sons
and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
If you want to get into living union
again with the Lord, and communion with Him,
fellowship with Him, and the direct legitimate use
of His name, get back.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful
and just to forgive us, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
He'll take you back to His sister and
brother.
But you've got to turn and get away
from it.
Be separate.
Touch not the unclean thing.
He says, I'll be a father to you.
The communion will be settled.
The fellowship will be opened up again.
And whatsoever ye shall ask Him, He says,
I'll give it you.
Has this been the reason why you have
been out courting and flirting with the Lord?
With the Word?
Untrue to Jesus Christ and your vows to
Him?
And then you expect Him to answer?
Oh, no.
Expect Him to sustain?
No.
To bless?
Oh, no, no.
You've got to get away.
And if tonight's where you are and as
you are, if this is the solution of
your problem, if you'll only come out from
among, have done with the thing, get into
fellowship with the Lord, whatsoever ye shall ask,
He says, I'll do it.
And then the last way you can use
the name is the commercial way.
Supposing Brother Flanagan and I had a business
together.
And we were partners together in a business.
I don't know what it would be, but
supposing, we'll suppose it, that has happened.
I'd go to my lawyer and say, Lawyer,
I've got a partner, I'm going to enter
into business, and I want you to, I
want you to get a, a document here
that will tie him up as a result.
So Brother Flanagan goes to his lawyer and
he says, this fellow Nicholson here, we're going
to have a partnership together, and so I
want you to bring up a deed.
A deed that will safeguard my interests.
Well, the time comes, whenever we get together,
the four of us.
Lawyer here, lawyer there, Flanagan there and me
here.
And they'll read my, what I want.
And so it's either corrected or, or accepted.
Flanagan, his is read, and corrected or, or
accepted.
All right, out of the two, they get,
they get one document.
A deed of partnership.
Sign the dotted line.
There.
Now there's the way the business will be
done.
And we get on fine and, and they,
they, things are prospering well in a way.
And then by and by, Flanagan gets kind
of what they call spring fever.
And he says, I'm going out for a
bit of fishing.
Going up the mountains to, have some recreation
and, that wasn't in the deed mate.
And by and by, I check, come back
from Flanagan.
He wants money.
And working away at the business.
Flanagan's working away at the business.
Has a big work on hand.
A big work.
And he has got a, a company, unlimited,
in this world, to carry out that work.
And you and I are, we're partners with
God.
Not only the child of God, not only
the bride of Christ, but a partner, in
God's big business.
And that is the church.
And I speak of the church, I'm not
talking about Church of England, or Zon, or
Presbyterian, I'm talking about born again people.
Wherever they're assembled together.
Wherever they are, church.
And I'm a partner with God in this
big business, that God has, saving men and
women, blessing men and women, hastening on to
the coming of Jesus Christ.
Well, I get tired of that.
Don't like teaching Sunday school anymore.
Get tired of the choir.
Get tired of the, an officer, been an
officer in the church.
Don't mind been an officer in the, Masonic
Lodge or the, or something else, but the
church are just getting tired of it anyhow.
And so we're not in the business.
We're not doing anything.
In God's business.
And you imagine, poor old God's got to
get that.
To take that.
And he's got to work, for he said
to Jesus, My Father worketh, and so do
I.
That are working.
God's a working God.
And you and I are partners with him.
But we've got tired.
Or maybe we've got kind of disgusted.
Or maybe we've got annoyed at God, for
the way God does things, and we've quit.
And still you expect to get the benefit.
Just as truly as you and I could
be wise, about the commercial things, God's as
wise as you and me anyhow.
And you can pray to the crack of
doom, brother, but when you've got to get,
get something from it, but not.
Seek first.
Not second.
Not third.
Seek first the kingdom of God, and all
these things shall be added to you.
But you see, oh, well, I, I don't
see that I should do this, and this,
that, and the other for the Lord.
Don't like to take too much bother, or
if it doesn't hurt me, or doesn't interfere
with anything, I might.
Ah, no, dear friend.
If you'll get this, if you'll take the
yoke, come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden.
I will give you rest, but take, and
you'll find, you'll find, that's what you see,
what you ask for, you'll get, what you
seek for, you'll find.
Tell me, dear friends, does this solve any
of your problems of worthless praying things?
It has for me.
I've never known a man or woman that
was a child of God, by faith in
Christ, the bride of Christ, and active in
the work of God, that didn't ask, and
receive, seek, and find, nothing, and it shall
be opened.
But if we're not doing these, well, we
can't expect God to answer, can we?
Just a word in closing, He doesn't say
how, how He'll answer you.
Would you mind that?
Some of us think that we know better
than God, and we ask God for a
particular thing, and we tell God how, it's
got to be done.
How it's got to be done.
Can't do that.
God will arrange you but the how, and
God will arrange us the how, it's done.
But you see, so many of us, we
just think that God's got to barbecue your
notions.
No, got to leave that to God.
Second, when will He do it?
I don't know.
You can't put your fist under God's noses.
Jesus Christ said, if it's possible for this
cup to pass from me, Father, but not
my will, but thy will be done.
You've always got to seek God's will about
the matter.
He knows when it should be done, and
He knows how it should be done.
We mustn't be impertinent, and begin to tell
God when and how, but assure if you
and I are children of God by faith,
in Christ, we are really the bread of
Christ, seeking to serve the Lord, and serving
Him.
Whatsoever you shall ask, ask anything.
When?
That's where it's up to God.
How?
That's up to God.
Do you see that?
You can leave it in His hands.
He'll not be an hour too late, and
He'll not do anything that's wrong.
It'll be for our good.
God working all things together for our good,
because we love Him, and it's according to
His purpose.
It's according to His purpose.
He has a plan, He is the architect,
and He's working for your good and mine,
while we're in the will of God.
And He's doing it in His own way,
in His own time, and as to how,
He knows best.
I came across these words, listen.
Unanswered yet?
The prayer your lips have pleaded, does faith
begin to fail?
Is hope departing?
And think you all in vain, those falling
tears?
Say not, the Father hath not heard your
prayer.
You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere.
Unanswered yet?
Though when you first presented this one petition
at the Father's throne, it seemed you could
not wait the time of asking, so urgent
was your heart to make it known.
Though years have passed since then, do not
despair.
The Lord will answer you, sometime, somewhere.
Unanswered yet?
Yea, nay, do not say ungranted.
Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done.
The work began when first your prayer was
uttered, and God will finish what He has
begun.
If you will keep the incense burning there,
His glory you shall see, sometime, somewhere.
Unanswered yet?
Faith cannot be unanswered.
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock.
Amid the wildest storm she stands undaunted, nor
quails before the loudest thundershock.
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer, and
Christ, it shall be done, sometime, somewhere.
Not adjourned with you, friend.
As the Lord has blessed me in this
that I am telling you, may it be
a blessing to many of you here, that
this problem of prayer has been a problem
in your life in the past.