Excerpt: ...in an irregularity not without method, for visits to special cases of sickness, or sorrow, or other need. PREPARE FOR VISITATION WITH PRAYER. What shall be my first suggestion? It shall point to the Throne of Grace. Preface the pastoral round with special secret prayer. Sermons are usually (I wish it were always so now) prefaced with prayer in the pulpit that the heavenly blessing may rest upon the ordinance. Is it less fitting, less necessary, to prepare for the afternoon's or evening's Pg 153 visitation with a ...
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Excerpt: ...in an irregularity not without method, for visits to special cases of sickness, or sorrow, or other need. PREPARE FOR VISITATION WITH PRAYER. What shall be my first suggestion? It shall point to the Throne of Grace. Preface the pastoral round with special secret prayer. Sermons are usually (I wish it were always so now) prefaced with prayer in the pulpit that the heavenly blessing may rest upon the ordinance. Is it less fitting, less necessary, to prepare for the afternoon's or evening's Pg 153 visitation with a secret petition in your own room that the apostolic ordinance of domestic visitation Acts xx. 20, 21., to be administered now by you, may have the special grace of God in it? Pray for yourself, my younger Brother. PRAY FOR SPIRITUAL READINESS AND SPIRITUAL FULNESS. Ask that you may go out well furnished with the peace, and patience, and wisdom laid up for you in your Lord; that you may have "by the Holy Spirit a right judgment in all things"; that you may have "the tongue of the taught, 15 to speak a word in season to them that are weary"; whatever sort of weariness it is. Pray for that secret skill of discernment which can see the difference of spiritual states, and Pg 154 allot warning or comfort not at random but "in due season." Pray for that readiness for the unexpected which is best secured and best maintained in a close and conscious intimacy with your Saviour. The man "found in Him" will be found ready in spirit (and that is after all the essential in spiritual work) for the sudden question, whether anxious or captious, for the sudden rudeness of ignorance or opposition, and again for the chronic and so to speak passive difficulty of indifference. "The tongue of the taught," while the "taught" man is found in Christ, will ever be sweet, wise, and truthful, as the owner of it goes his round. But we must seek for it; "He will be enquired of for this thing." Ezek. xxxvi. 37. 15 Isai. l. 4. Obviously the word "learned" in our Version is...
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