“I beseech you, brethren, by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.”—Rom. xv. 30.
“Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves.”—1 Pet. iv. 8.
If we are to pray we must love. Let us say to God we do love all His saints; let us say we love specially every child of His we know. Let us pray with fervent love, in the love of the Spirit.
SPECIAL PETITIONS
[p209] Fourth Day
WHAT TO PRAY.—
God is the Holy One. His people is a holy people. He speaks: I am holy: I am the Lord which make you holy. Christ prayed: Sanctify them. Make them holy through Thy Truth. Paul prayed: “God establish your hearts unblamable in holiness.” “God sanctify you wholly!”
Pray for all saints—God’s holy ones—throughout the Church, that the Spirit of holiness may rule them. Specially for new converts. For the saints in your own neighbourhood or congregation. For any you are specially interested in. Think of their special need, weakness, or sin, and pray that God may make them holy.