I Wasn't Praying Right - by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

I Wasn't Praying Right 

by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

We were having supper in a restaurant in Albany, Georgia, and had just given our waitress a gospel tract. This brought about an incident we shall probably never forget. The young lady was married and had one child, though still a teen-ager, but she was a sincere believer and had already learned one lesson which is bound to enrich the life of any Christian.

About ten months previous her little baby, only two months old, had become seriously ill. The little one was taken to the hospital but his condition worsened daily. “I was on my knees so much those days,” said the young mother, “begging the Lord day after day not to take my little child, and I guess I got a little bitter one night when the doctor warned me in a kind way not to expect too much.

“I went home again and began claiming promises from the Lord, when it dawned on me that I hadn’t been praying right. All of a sudden it came to me, and I said: ‘Lord, I’m your child and I know perfectly well that you wouldn’t do anything to harm me, so please help me just to trust you and to understand that whatever you do is for my good.’

“I felt better then,” she said, “and I guess the Lord just wanted me to learn that lesson, because what do you think! The very next morning when I went to the hospital one of the nurses came to me almost dancing. She said: ‘Honey, your baby’s going to live. The crisis is over. You should see how well he’s doing!’ And he was! You should have seen him! And you should see how fine and healthy he is now!

“I’m so thankful. And believe me, I’ve learned that lesson, and won’t go demanding things from the Lord again.” 

Truths We Have in Christ

I am Redeemed ( Galatians 4:5 )

I am complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)

I am a New Creature ( 2 Corinthians 5:17 )

I am called to be a Saint ( Romans 1:7 )

I am accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6)

I am more than a conqueror ( Romans 8:37 )

I am an Ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20 )

I am justified freely by His Grace ( Romans 3:24 )

I am looking for that blessed Hope ( Titus 2:13 )

I am the Temple of the Living God ( 2 Corinthians 6:16 )

I have redemption through His blood ( Ephesians 1:7 )

I am free from the law of sin and death ( Romans 8:2 )

I am a son and heir of God through Christ ( Galatians 4:7 )

I know the body is not one member but many (1 Corinthians 12:14)

I am not my own, for I am bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

I am manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ( 2 Corinthians 3:3 )

I am not far but now made nigh by the blood of Christ

( Ephesians 2:13 )

I am sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30 )

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me

( Philippians 4:13 )

I am risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God

( Colossians 2:12 )

I am to endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ

( 2 Timothy 2:3 )

I am to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery

( Ephesians 3:9 )

I am presented holy, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)

I have redemption through His blood, and the forgiveness of sins ( Ephesians 1:7 )

I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3)

I am always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:10)

I am washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus ( 1 Corinthians 6:11 )

I am to wait for Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. ( 1 Thessalonians 1:10 )

I am confident that He which hath begun a good work in me will perform it ( Philippians 1:6

I am saved by grace through faith and not of works lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8)

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ( Galatians 2:20 )

I know this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)

I faint not, though my outward man perish, my Inner Man is renewed day by day ( 2 Corinthians 4:16 )

I am a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15)

I am looking for the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13)

I know God hath raised us up and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6)

I am persuaded that nothing shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ ( Romans 8:38-39 )

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

And Ye Are Complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)

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