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A Problem in Prayer: Learning to Ask as We Ought

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The Importance of Prayer

How is it possible at one moment to have perfect faith that you will get what you ask for and yet also prepare yourself submissively in advance for a possible refusal? And he and now we bend the knee in prayer. Interceding from Mrs. Jones, by which pattern do we pray? Do we ask for her healing if the Lord wills, or should we pray for her healing in Jesus name expecting and not doubting this to happen? Louis Russell's, have my own intercessory prayers for years been mistaken. For I have always prayed that the illnesses of my friends might be healed if it was God's will, very clearly envisaging the possibility that it might not be.

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