Now it is impossible in these f moments to give any adequate outline suggesting how we might prepare our hearts for the Day of United Intercession. However, may I mention three indispensable requirements, without which, our gathering will be as sounding bra: and' tinkling cymbal; our disappointment will be s real as David's on that tragic day on the road from Kirjath-jearim.
In that great roll-call of the faithful given to us in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, which so vividly describes the victory of faith, we read—'Without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him'. He that cometh to God must believe that He i.
s the writer, without faith it i mpossible to be well-pleasing to God. This then, is the first requisite. We must come "Believingly. Now that may sound too much like a religious platitude and too obvious to need emphasis. I wonder? Canon Bar writing on 'Prayer and Dunkirk', has this sentence—"The question of prayer is bound up with the ultimate belief in God". The fact of our gathering together will be, in itself, a sufficient testimony to the sense of our need. But a sense of need is not sufficient. We must have the uplifting dynamic of faith, and faith that is rightly directed. The only approach to God is through the divine mediatorship of Jesus Christ our Lord. "There is one mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus, In coming before God we are challenged with the divine imperative—!He that cometh must believe that He is. Nothing short of absolute faith in God and in His Son will avail us anything We must come "Believingly".
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