File Name: Ryle, J. C. - How Readest Thou

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Author: J. C. Ryle
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I. I ask, first of all, because there is no knowledge absolutely needful to a man's salvation, except a knowledge of the things which are to be found in the Bible.

II. I ask, in the second place, because there is no book in existence written in such a manner as the Bible.

III. I ask, in the third place, because no book in existence contains such important matter as the Bible.

IV. I ask in the fourth place, because no book in existence has produced such wonderful effects on mankind at large as the Bible.

V. I ask in the fifth place, because no book in existence can do so much for every one who reads it rightly, as the Bible.

VI. I ask in the sixth place, because no gift of God to man is so awfully neglected and misused as the Bible.

VII. I ask in the seventh place, because the Bible is the only rule by which all questions of doctrine or of duty can be tried.

VIII. I ask in the next place, because the Bible is His book which all true servants of God have always lived on and loved.

IX. I ask, in the last place, because the Bible is the only book which can comfort a man in the last hours of his life.

X. A Warning To Those Who Chose Not To Read The Bible

XI. Practical Advice For Reading The Bible

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File Name: Baron, David - Rays of Messiah's Glory

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File Submitted: 17 Feb 2016

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Author: David Baron
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Suggest New Tag:: Christ in the Old Testament

Rays of Messiah's Glory was published by David Baron in 1886. It is a treatise of Christ in the Old Testament written for the average English Bible Student. Raised in a Jewish family, he became a true son of Abraham upon placing his faith in the finished work of his Messiah, Jesus Christ as an adult. The author provides rich insights from a Jewish perspective into the portrait of Christ in the Old Testament.

Contents:

Preface
I. The Scroll of the Book, or Predicted and Fulfilled
II. Messiah as Priest and King
III. The Branch and the Branches, or A Symbol of Christ and His Church
V. Four Precious Titles of the Messiah
VI. Moses and Christ: An Analogy and Contrast
VII. Isaiah 53: Messianic or Not?

Appendix
Note 1: The Seed of the Woman, Genesis 3:15
Note 2: "Until Shiloh Come," Genesis 49:10
Note 3: "They Pierced My Hands and My Feet," Psalm 22
Note 4: The "Branch"
Note 5: In Defense, or More on Isaiah 53

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File Name: Baron, David - Rays of Messiah's Glory

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File Submitted: 16 Feb 2016

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Author: David Baron
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Suggest New Tag:: Christ in the Old Testament

Rays of Messiah's Glory was published by David Baron in 1886.  It is a treatise of Christ in the Old Testament written for the average English Bible Student.  Raised in a Jewish family, he became a true son of Abraham upon placing his faith in the finished work of his Messiah, Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.  The author provides rich insights from a Jewish perspective into the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Contents:

Preface
I, The Scroll of the Book, or Predicted and Fulfilled
II. Messiah as Priest and King
III. Branch, or Four Aspects of Messiah's Character
IV. The Branch and the Branches, or A Symbol of Christ and His Church
V. Four Precious Titles of the Messiah
VI. Moses and Christ: An Analogy and Contrast
VII. Isaiah53: Messianic or Not?

Appendix
Note 1: The Seed of the Woman (Genesis 3:15)
Note 2:"Until Shiloh Come" Genesis 49:10
Note 3: They Pierced My Hands and My Feet: (Psalm 22)
Note 4: The "Branch"
Note 5: In Defense, or More on Isaiah 53

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File Name: Murray, Andrew - The Ministry of Intercession

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Author: Andrew Murray
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Suggest New Tag:: Intercessory Prayer

Contents

Dedication
The Ministry of Intercession
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Lack of Prayer
Chapter 2 - The Ministration of the Spirit and Prayer
Chapter 3 - A Model of Intercession
Chapter 4 - Because of His Importunity
Chapter 5 - The Life That Can Pray
Chapter 6 - Is Prayerlessness Sin?
Chapter 7 - Who Shall Deliver?
Chapter 8 - Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?
Chapter 9 - The Secret of Effective Prayer
Chapter 10 - The Spirit of Supplication
Chapter 11 - In the Name of Christ
Chapter 12 - My God Will Hear Me
Chapter 13 - Paul, a Pattern of Prayer
Chapter 14 - God Seeks Intercessors
Chapter 15 - The Coming Revival
Note A
Note B
Note C
Note D
Note E
Note F
Pray Without Ceasing
Appendix
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
Day 21
Day 22
Day 23
Day 24
Day 25
Day 26
Day 27
Day 28
Day 29
Day 30
Day 31

Introduction

I have been asked by a friend, who heard of this book being published, what the difference would be between it and the previous one on the same subject, WITH CHRIST IN THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER. An answer to that question may be the best introduction I can give to the present volume.

Any acceptance the former work has had must be attributed, as far as the contents go, to the prominence given to two great truths. The one was, the certainty that prayer will be answered. There is with some an idea that to ask and expect an answer is not the highest form of prayer.

Fellowship with God, apart from any request, is more than supplication. About the petition there is something of selfishness and bargaining—to worship is more than to beg. With others the thought that prayer is so often unanswered is so prominent, that they think more of the spiritual benefit derived from the exercise of prayer than the actual gifts to be obtained by it. While admitting the measure of truth in these views, when kept in their true place, THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER points out how our Lord continually spoke of prayer as a means of obtaining what we desire, and how He seeks in every possible way to waken in us the confident expectation of an answer. I was led to show how prayer, in which a man could enter into the mind of God, could assert the royal power of a renewed will, and bring down to earth what without prayer would not have been given, is the highest proof of his having been made in the likeness of God's Son. He is found worthy of entering into fellowship with Him, not only in adoration and worship, but in having his will actually taken up into the rule of the world, and becoming the intelligent channel through which God can fulfil his eternal purpose. The book sought to reiterate and enforce the precious truths Christ preaches so continually: the blessing of prayer is that you can ask and receive what you will: the highest exercise and the glory of prayer is that persevering importunity can prevail and obtain what God at first could not and would not give.

With this truth there was a second one that came out very strongly as we studied the Master's words. In answer to the question, But why, if the answer to prayer is so positively promised, why are there such numberless unanswered prayers? We found that Christ taught us that the answer depended upon certain conditions. He spoke of faith, of perseverance, of praying in His Name, of praying in the will of God. But all these conditions were summed up in the one central one: "If ye abide in Me, ask whatsoever ye will and it shall be done unto you." It became clear that the power to pray the effectual prayer of faith depended upon the life. It is only to a man given up to live as entirely in Christ and for Christ as the branch in the vine and for the vine, that these promises can come true. "In that day," Christ said, the day of Pentecost, "ye shall ask in My Name." It is only in a life full of the Holy Spirit that the true power to ask in Christ's Name can be known. This led to the emphasising the truth that the ordinary Christian life cannot appropriate these promises. It needs a spiritual life, altogether sound and vigorous, to pray in power. The teaching naturally led to press the need of a life of entire consecration. More than one has told me how it was in the reading of the book that he first saw what the better life was that could be lived, and must be lived, if Christ's wonderful promises are to come true to us.

In regard to these two truths there is no change in the present volume. One only wishes that one could put them with such clearness and force as to help every beloved fellow-Christian to some right impression of the reality and the glory of our privilege as God's children: "Ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you." The present volume owes its existence to the desire to enforce two truths, of which formerly I had no such impression as now.

The one is—that Christ actually meant prayer to be the great power by which His Church should do its work, and that the neglect of prayer is the great reason the Church has not greater power over the masses in Christian and in heathen countries. In the first chapter I have stated how my convictions in regard to this have been strengthened, and what gave occasion to the writing of the book. It is meant to be, on behalf of myself and my brethren in the ministry and all God's people, a confession of shortcoming and of sin, and, at the same time, a call to believe that things can be different, and that Christ waits to fit us by His Spirit to pray as He would have us. This call, of course, brings me back to what I spoke of in connection with the former volume: that there is a life in the Spirit, a life of abiding in Christ, within our reach, in which the power of prayer—both the power to pray and the power to obtain the answer—can be realised in a measure which we could not have thought possible before. Any failure in the prayer-life, any desire or hope really to take the place Christ has prepared for us, brings us to the very root of the doctrine of grace as manifested in the Christian life. It is only by a full surrender to the life of abiding, by the yielding to the fulness of the Spirit's leading and quickening, that the prayer-life can be restored to a truly healthy state. I feel deeply how little I have been able to put this in the volume as I could wish. I have prayed and am trusting that God, who chooses the weak things, will use it for His own glory.

The second truth which I have sought to enforce is that we have far too little conception of the place that intercession, as distinguished from prayer for ourselves, ought to have in the Church and the Christian life. In intercession our King upon the throne finds His highest glory; in it we shall find our highest glory too. Through it He continues His saving work, and can do nothing without it; through it alone we can do our work, and nothing avails without it. In it He ever receives from the Father the Holy Spirit and all spiritual blessings to impart; in it we too are called to receive in ourselves the fulness of God's Spirit, with the power to impart spiritual blessing to others. The power of the Church truly to bless rests on intercession—asking and receiving heavenly gifts to carry to men. Because this is so, it is no wonder that where, owing to lack of teaching or spiritual insight, we trust in our own diligence and effort, to the influence of the world and the flesh, and work more than we pray, the presence and power of God are not seen in our work as we would wish.

Such thoughts have led me to wonder what could be done to rouse believers to a sense of their high calling in this, and to help and train them to take part in it. And so this book differs from the former one in the attempt to open a practising school, and to invite all who have never taken systematic part in the great work of intercession to begin and give themselves to it....

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File Name: Muller, George - Life of Trust, Edited by H. Lincoln Wayland

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File Submitted: 26 Nov 2017

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Author: George Muller
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Suggest New Tag:: Prayer, Brethren, Orphans

LarryG uploaded files on July 12, 2012 for someone to create a .topx module with the following recommendation:
“I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. Thirty years ago I read this book and it totally changed my life! In the eyes of the world, George Muller wasn't anyone special. Yet in God's eyes...This book was a delight to read - a real faith builder!”


This module contains all Appendices, including Dr. Sawtell’s letters which, unfortunately are lacking in many editions both digital and print of “The Life of Trust”. The absence of Dr. Sawtell’s letters is sad indeed because it deprives the reader of learning about Mr. Müller’s daily prayer and study habits as he ministered on behalf of the Lord.

FYI, Also uploaded is Arthur T. Pierson’s Pierson’s “George Muller of Bristol, His Life of Prayer and Faith (ILLUSTRATED)” which includes photos of the Bethesda Chapel’s interior and exterior, The Orphan Houses, Mr. Muller’s House, Prayer Room of Orphan House No. 3, etc.

Life of Trust


CONTENTS

Introduction.

Chapter 1, Boyhood and Youth, 1805-1825.

BIRTH—EARLY DISHONESTY—INSENSITIVITY—CONFIRMATION IN THE STATE CHURCH—DISSOLUTENESS OF LIFE—THE HARD WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS—THE

GYMNASIUM AT NORDHAUSEN—THE UNIVERSITY AT HALLE—ROVINGS.

Chapter 2, The Prodigal’s Return, 1825-1826.

A TREASURE FOUND—DAWNING OF THE NEW LIFE—THE PEACE OF GOD—“I AM COME TO SET A MAN AT VARIANCE AGAINST HIS FATHER”—“LET HIM THAT HEARETH

SAY, COME”—THE FIRST SERMON—DELIGHT IN THE LORD—A COMMON ERROR—THE FOUNTAIN NEGLECTED.

Chapter 3, Self-Dedication, 1826-1829.

DESIRE FOR MISSIONARY LABOR—PROVIDENTIAL RELEASE FROM MILITARY SERVICE—VISIT AT HOME—LED TO THE LAND OF HIS FUTURE LABORS—PROGRESS IN

RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE—DESIRE FOR IMMEDIATE USEFULNESS.

Chapter 4, Leaning on Jesus, 1830-1832.

A DOOR OPENED—TOKENS FOR GOOD—TRUST EXERCISED IN THE STUDY AND MINISTRY OF THE WORD—THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT—TRUSTING IN GOD FOR DAILY

BREAD—BLESSEDNESS OF WAITING UPON THE LORD—“OWE NO MAN”—“ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU”—THE GIFT OF FAITH, AND THE GRACE OF

FAITH.

Chapter 5, Ministry at Bristol Begun, 1832-1833.

“HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY”—CAUTION TO THE CHRISTIAN TRAVELLER—NEW TOKENS FOR GOOD—THE WAY MADE CLEAR—MEETINGS FOR

INQUIRY—NO RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH GOD—FRANCKE, “BEING DEAD, YET SPEAKETH”—DAILY BREAD SUPPLIED—A PECULAIR PEOPLE.

Chapter 6, The Scriptural Knowledge Institution, 1834-1835.

UNSCRIPTURAL CHARACTER OF THE EXISTING RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES—A NEW INSTITUTION PROPOSED—GOD’S WORD THE ONLY RULE, AND

GOD’S PROMISE THE ONLY DEPENDENCE—“IN EVERYTHING, LET YOUR REQUEST BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD”—EARNEST OF THE DIVINE BLESSING ON THE

INSTITUTION—BEREAVEMENT—HELPER SEASONABLY SENT—REWARD OF SEEKING GOD’S FACE.

Chapter 7, Home for Destitute Orphans, 1835-1836.

FRANKE’S WORKS FOLLOW HIM—A GREAT UNDERTAKING CONCEIVED—REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING AN ORPHAN HOUSE—PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE—TREASURE

LAID UP IN HEAVEN—IN PRAYER AND IN FAITH, THE WORK IS BEGUN.

Chapter 8, The Field Widening, 1836-1837.

AN UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE—IMPLICIT SUBMISSION—A SECOND ORPHAN HOUSE PROPOSED—AN ENCOURAGING TEXT—THE NEW ORPHAN HOUSE

OPENED—COMPLETED ANSWER TO PRAYER—PROGRESS OF THE LORD’S WORK—THE OVERSIGHT OF THE FLOCK.

Chapter 9, Trial, 1838.

THE MINISTRY OF SICKNESS—PEACE OF MIND—JESUS A PRESENT HELP—DEEP POVERTY—PLEADING WITH GOD—UNITED PRAYER.

Chapter 10, Deliverance, 1838.

“PERPLEXED BUT NOT IN DESPAIR”—FAITH JUSTIFIED—A LESSON ON OBEDIENCE—BOUNTIFUL SUPPLIES—SPIRITUAL INGATHERING—A DAY OF

MERCIES—TIMELY AID—A SEASON OF PLENTY—OBEDIENCE REWARDED.

Chapter 11, Asking and Receiving, 1839.

HELP FOR THE POOR SAINTS—THE UNFAILING BANK—MEANS EXHAUSTED—LIBERALITY OF A LABORING SISTER—“HE KNOWETH OUR FRAME”—REDEEMING

THE TIME—GODLINESS PROFITABLE UNTO ALL THINGS.

Chapter 12, Plenty and Want, 1840.

A PURE OFFERING REQUIRED—A JOURNEY PROPOSED—SEASONABLE PROVISION—LOOKING ONLY TO THE LORD—THE WRATH OF MAN PRAISING

GOD—A PROMISE FULFILLED—BENEFIT OF TRIAL—NEW SPRINGS OPENED—BEFORE THEY CALL I WILL ANSWER—TRUST IN GOD

COMMENDED—SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS.

Chapter 13, Faith Strengthened by Exercise, 1841.

A WANT SUPPLIED—RESOURCES EXCEEDING THE DEMAND—EVIL OF SURETYSHIP—POWER OF CHRISTIAN LOVE—GOD’S WORD THE FOOD OF THE

SOUL—PREPARATION FOR THE HOUR OF TRIAL—POVERTY—DEPENDING ONLY ON THE LIVING GOD.

Chapter 14, Walking in Darkness, 1841-1842.

“GOD’S WAY LEADS INTO TRIAL”—GROUNDS OF THANKFULNESS—PROTRACTED DARKNESS—CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED—TRUST IN GOD

COMMENDED—THE MEANS OF ITS ATTAINMENT—REVIEW OF THE WORK.

Chapter 15, Prosperity, 1842-1843.

ABUNDANT SUPPLIES—RESTING ON THE WRITTEN WORD—“SEEKING AND FINDING”—ERRONEOUS IMPRESSIONS REMOVED—PERSEVERING AND

PREVAILING PRAYER ANSWERED—“LENGTHENING THE CORDS AND STRENGTHENING THE STAKES”—A FOURTH ORPHAN HOUSE.

Chapter 16, Stewardship, 1844.

EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY TREASURES—SEEKING THE KINGDOM OF GOD—FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER—THE CHRISTIAN MERCHANT—EXAMPLES—MISTAKES.

Chapter 17, Reaping Bountifully, 1845-1846.

AN UNEXPECTED REQUEST—DELIBERATION—A GREAT UNDERTAKING—RELIANCE ON THE RESOURCES OF THE LIVING GOD—AN ANSWER EXPECTED

AND RECEIVED—PRAYER FOR FAITH AND PATIENCE—FURTHER PROOFS OF DIVINE FAVOR—THE BLESSEDNESS OF DEVISING LIBERAL THINGS.

Chapter 18, Faith Confirmed by Prosperity, 1846-1848.

THE SPIRIT OF SUPPLICATION BESTOWED AND PRAYER ANSWERED—THE TIME OF MAN’S NEED AND OF GOD’S BOUNTY—FAITH NOT SHAKEN—DEALING

ONLY WITH GOD—THE NEEDED AMOUNT FURNISHED—PERPETUAL “NEED”—NOT WEARY IN GOD’S WORK—JOY IN ANSWERED PRAYER—FOUR REQUESTS

GRANTED—“CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER”—THE BUILDING COMMENCED—PERSONAL HISTORY—A MARKED DELIVERANCE.

Chapter 19, Continued Mercies, 1848-1850.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS—DEVISING LIBERAL THINGS—THE ORPHANS PROVIDED FOR—A MEMORABLE DAY—MONEY “AT INTEREST”—MEANS FROM AN

UNEXPECTED SOURCE—THE PROGRESS OF THE NEW ORPHAN HOUSE—MEANS PROVIDED FOR ITS COMPLETION—INEXPRESSIBLE DELIGHT IN

GOD—REVIEW OF THE TWO YEARS PAST.

Chapter 20, A New Victory of Faith, 1850-1851.

PAST MERCIES AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO NEW UNDERTAKINGS—A HOUSE FOR SEVEN HUNDRED ORPHANS PROPOSED—WALKING BY FAITH—COUNSEL

SOUGHT FROM GOD—THE PURPOSE FORMED—DELIGHT IN THE MAGNITUDE AND DIFFICULTY OF THE DESIGN.

Chapter 21, Unvarying Prosperity, 1850-1852.

DESIRES FOR MORE ENLARGED USEFULNESS GRATIFIED—A LARGE DONATION ANTICIPATED AND RECEIVED—REVIEW OF 1851—PERSONAL

EXPERIENCE—BUILDING FUND FOR THE SECOND NEW ORPHAN HOUSE—DOUBT RESISTED—WAITING ON GOD NOT IN VAIN—REVIEW OF 1852.

Chapter 22, Reaping in Joy, 1852-1854.

EXPECTING GREAT THINGS FROM GOD—MUNIFICENT DONATION—INCREASING USEFULNESS OF THE SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTION—ACCESS

TO GOD THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST—A VOICE FROM MOUNT LEBANON—BENEFIT OF WAITING GOD’S TIME—CAREFUL STEWARDSHIP—FAITH, THE

ONLY RELIANCE—“THIS POOR WIDOW HATH CAST IN MORE THAN THEY ALL”—GREATER ACHIEVEMENTS OF FAITH ANTICIPATED—COUNSEL TO TRACT

DISTRIBUTORS—A NEW AND SEVERE TRIAL OF FAITH.

Chapter 23, Three Years of Prosperity, 1854-1857.

THE SITE SELECTED—SIX THOUSAND ORPHANS IN PRISON—HOW TO ASK FOR DAILY BREAD—REVIEW OF TWENTY-FOUR YEARS—“TAKE NO THOUGH

FOR THE MORROW”—INSURANCE AGAINST BAD DEBTS.

Chapter 24, Conclusion, 1857-1860.

THE HOUSE FOR FOUR HUNDRED OPENED—PRAYER MORE THAN ANSWERED—THE RESORT IN TROUBLE—AN OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT ON THE

ORPHANS—LAND FOR A NEW BUILDING PURCHASED—“BUT ONE LIFE TO SPEND FOR GOD”—“SCATTERING, YET INCREASING”—A MEMORABLE

YEAR—THE GERM OF THE IRISH REVIVAL—LETTER FROM AN ORPHAN—THE FRUIT OF SIX MONTHS’ PRAYER—THE RESULTS OF THE WORK—REVIVAL

AMONG THE ORPHANS.

Appendix 1, List of Articles Contributed.

Appendix 2, Auditor’s Report for 1859-60.

Appendix 3, Letter from Rev. Dr. Sawtell.

Psa 115:1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory…

This file has been edited to fix the display of Appendix 2 and to correct some typographical errors.

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