Mark 11:24 Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. I. PRAYER'S LIMIT. "All things soever ye desire, believe and ye shall have them." The boundary line of desire and of faith. 1. The boundary line of faith. Faith is vast, recognizes the covenant of the promises, and whatever comes outside the promises for which she can find anywhere a direct engagement of Almighty God to do. Faith is the turning of an infinite future, into a present real receiving; it can go confidently when it treads on Scripture ground. So the Bible becomes, in a measure, prayer; .you must try to bring prayer up to the mind of God in it. 2. Desire has a gracious limit. A man well acquainted with God's Word lives under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and his mind is conformed to the mind of God, and his desires gradually blend with the wishes of the Almighty. II. PRAYER'S REACH. III. PRAYER'S WARRANT. The blood of Christ and the worth of this warrant. 1. It is personal. 2. It is present. 3. It is absolute. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. |
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