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032 - Prevailing Prayer · True Vine

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty one, Prevailing Prayer from the True Vine by
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Murray. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: recording by Phil Snyder, Prevailing Prayer. I appointed you that
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  Speaker 1: ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit
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  Speaker 1: should abide, that whatsoever ye ask of the Father in
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  Speaker 1: my name, he may give it to you. John fifteen sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: In the first verse of our parable, Christ revealed himself
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  Speaker 1: as the True Vine, and the Father as the Husbandman,
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  Speaker 1: and asked for himself and the Father a place in
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  Speaker 1: the heart. Here in the closing verse he sums up
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  Speaker 1: all his teaching concerning himself and the Father in the
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  Speaker 1: twofold purpose for which he had chosen them with reference
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  Speaker 1: to himself the Vine. The purpose was that they should
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  Speaker 1: bear fruit. With reference to the Father. It was that
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever they should ask in his name should be done
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  Speaker 1: of the Father in heaven. As fruit is the great
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  Speaker 1: proof of the true relation to Christ, so prayer is
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  Speaker 1: of our relation to the Father. Of fruitful abiding in
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  Speaker 1: the Son and prevailing prayer to the Father are the
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  Speaker 1: two great factors in the true Christian life. That whatsoever
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  Speaker 1: ye ask of the Father in my name, he may
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  Speaker 1: give it to you. These are the closing words of
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  Speaker 1: the Parable of the Vine. The whole mystery of the
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  Speaker 1: vine and its branches leads up to the other mystery,
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  Speaker 1: that whatsoever we ask in his name, the Father gives.
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  Speaker 1: See here the reason of the lack of prayer and
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  Speaker 1: the lack of power in prayer. It is because we
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  Speaker 1: so little live the true branch life, because we so
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  Speaker 1: little lose ourselves in the vine, abiding in Him entirely,
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  Speaker 1: that we feel so little constrained to much prayer, so
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  Speaker 1: little confident that we shall be heard, and so do
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  Speaker 1: not know how to use his name as the key
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  Speaker 1: to God's storehouse. The vine planted on earth has reached
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  Speaker 1: up to heaven. It is only the soul, wholly and
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  Speaker 1: intensely abiding in it, can reach into Heaven with power
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  Speaker 1: to prevail. Much. Our faith in the teaching and the
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  Speaker 1: truth of the Parable. In the truth and the life
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  Speaker 1: of the Vine, must prove itself by power in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: The life of abiding and obedience of love, and joy
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  Speaker 1: of cleansing and fruit bearing will surely lead to the
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  Speaker 1: power of prevailing prayer, whatsoever ye shall ask. The promise
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  Speaker 1: was given to disciples who were ready to give themselves
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  Speaker 1: in the likeness of the True Vine. For their fellow men.
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  Speaker 1: This promise was all their provision for their work. They
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  Speaker 1: took it literally, they believed it, they used it, and
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  Speaker 1: they found it true. Let us give ourselves as branches
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  Speaker 1: of the True Vine, and in his likeness to the
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  Speaker 1: work of saving men, of bringing forth fruit to the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God, and we shall find a new urgency
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  Speaker 1: and power to pray and to claim the whatsoever ye ask.
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  Speaker 1: We shall waken to our wonderful responsibility of having in
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  Speaker 1: such a promise the keys to the King's storehouses given us.
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  Speaker 1: And we shall not rest till we have received bread
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  Speaker 1: and blessing for the perishing. I chose you that ye
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  Speaker 1: may bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may abide,
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  Speaker 1: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name,
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  Speaker 1: he may give it to you. Beloved disciple, seek above
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  Speaker 1: everything to be a man of prayer. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: highest exercise of your privilege as a branch of the vine.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the full proof of your being renewed in
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  Speaker 1: the image of God and his Son. Here is your
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  Speaker 1: power to show how you, like Christ, live not for
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  Speaker 1: yourself but for others. Here you enter heaven to receive
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  Speaker 1: gifts for men. Here, your abiding in Christ has led
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  Speaker 1: to His abiding in you, to use you as the
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  Speaker 1: channel and instrument of His grace. The power to bear
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  Speaker 1: fruit for men has been crowned by power to prevail
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  Speaker 1: with God. I am the Vine. My Father is the Husbandman.
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  Speaker 1: Christ's work in you is to bring you so to
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  Speaker 1: the Father that His word may be fulfilled in you.
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  Speaker 1: At that day ye shall ask in my name, And
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  Speaker 1: I say not that I will pray the Father for you,
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  Speaker 1: for the Father himself loveth you. The power of direct
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  Speaker 1: access to the Father. For men, the liberty of intercession,
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  Speaker 1: claiming and receiving blessing for them in faith is the
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  Speaker 1: highest exercise of our union with Christ. Let all who
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  Speaker 1: would truly and fully be branches give themselves to the
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  Speaker 1: work of intercession. It is the one great work of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the vine in heaven, the source of power for all
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  Speaker 1: his work. Make it your one great work as branch.
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  Speaker 1: It will be the power of all your work. In
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  Speaker 1: my name, Yes, Lord, in thy name, the new name,
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  Speaker 1: thou hast given thyself here the true vine, as a branch,
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  Speaker 1: abiding in thee, in entire devotion, in full dependence, in
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  Speaker 1: perfect conformity, in abiding fruitfulness, I come to the Father
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  Speaker 1: in THEE, and he will give what I ask. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let my life be one of unceasing and prevailing intercession. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter thirty one. Recording by Phil Snyder, Los Angeles, California,
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  Speaker 1: Phil Snyder dot Net, YouTube channel, Phil Snyder Net. End
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  Speaker 1: of the True Vine by Andrew Murray