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What Various Hindrances We Meet
Prayer📖 "Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving." -Col. 4:2.
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What various hindrances we meet, In coming to the mercy-seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer But wishes to be often there?
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Pray'r makes the darken'd cloud Withdraw; Pray'r climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith and love, Brings every blessing from above.
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Restraining pray'r, we cease to fight; Pray'r makes the Christian'S armour bright; And Saints trembles hen he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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O Lord, increase our faith and love, That we may all Thy goodness prove, And gain from Thy exhaustless store The fruits of prayer for evermore.
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Were half the breath thus vainly spent, To heav'n in supplication sent, Our cheerful song would oftener be, Hear what the Lord hath done for me.