{"id":24317,"date":"2025-02-26T23:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24317"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:13:59","slug":"prayer-and-patience-must-go-hand-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/02\/prayer-and-patience-must-go-hand-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer And Patience Must Go Hand In Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.\u201d\u20142 Corinthians 12:8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Saviour represents God\u2019s own elect as crying day and night to him, Luke 18:7. Sore temptations, soul-burdens, Satan\u2019s buffetings, are peculiarly felt by them. Their crying under them is a proof of spiritual life, their crying to the Lord only is an evidence of the faith of God\u2019s elect, their entreaties to be delivered from them show the sanctified holy disposition of their souls. Thus the Lord draws out into exercise the graces of his children. His eyes are ever upon them, his ears open to their prayers, and his almighty power and grace sufficient to deliver them. But \u2018he that believeth, must not make haste.\u2019 We must tarry the Lord\u2019s leisure, and be strong in hope: his time is best. It is God\u2019s will that we should tell him of our trials and temptations. After we have done this, \u2018we have need of patience.\u2019 We must wait for the fulfilment of his promise, this is our duty.<\/p>\n

Paul prayed again and again, but the buffetings were still continued. His mind was uneasy, his soul distressed, the enemy triumphing, the Lord making as though he heard not. Prayer and patience must go hand in hand; murmurings are the offspring of unbelief and fretfulness arises from pride. To lie humble at the feet of Jesus is our wisdom. Indulge no hard thoughts of the Saviour\u2019s will to make thee holy, or power to make thee happy, though sin and Satan, like unwelcome visitors, daily intrude\u2014appear in various shapes, attack from different quarters, and seem in some sort to gain upon thee in thought, word, or action. When inwardly discomposed by unholy tempers, and outwardly harrassed by various temptations, poor souls are ready to think the war will end in their destruction; that Jesus will never give complete victory. But most assuredly he will: in due time we shall reap, if we faint not. Let it suffice, \u2018My grace is sufficient for thee,\u2019 saith the triumphant Head in glory, to each of his militant members on earth. Importunate praying, humble waiting, confident believing, comfortable hoping, are the very life and essence of a Christian. And let his besetting temptations or conflicting trials be what they may, it is his blessed privilege to write with the pen of faith, \u2018What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.\u2019 Rom. 8:35,37.<\/p>\n

Let me but hear my Saviour say,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Strength shall be equal to thy day;<\/p>\n

Then I rejoice in deep distress,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaning on alsufficient grace.<\/p>\n

When I am weak, then am I strong,<\/p>\n

Christ is my strength, and Christ my song:<\/p>\n

\u2018Sufficient is my grace,\u2019 he saith:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is enough for prayer and faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our Saviour represents God\u2019s own elect as crying day and night to him, Luke 18:7. Sore temptations, soul-burdens, Satan\u2019s buffetings, are peculiarly felt by them. Their crying under them is a proof of spiritual life, their crying to the Lord only is an evidence of the faith of God\u2019s elect, their entreaties to be delivered from them show the sanctified holy disposition of their souls. Thus the Lord draws out into exercise the graces of his children. His eyes are ever upon them, his ears open to their prayers, and his almighty power and grace sufficient to deliver them. But \u2018he that believeth, must not make haste.\u2019 We must tarry the Lord\u2019s leisure, and be strong in hope: his time is best. It is God\u2019s will that we should tell him of our trials and temptations. After we have done this, \u2018we have need of patience.\u2019 We must wait for the fulfilment of his promise, this is our duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1221],"class_list":["post-24317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}