How Should We Pray? by H. A. St. John

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1911

How Should We Pray?

By H. A. St. John

H. A. ST. JOHN

How should every lukewarm, miserable, wretched, poor, blind, and naked Laodicean pray?—First, he should acknowledge that the faithful and true Witness is right in stating his spiritual condition; and second, he should pray that he may be enabled by the aid of the Holy Spirit to see and sense his true condition of lukewarmness and great danger; then he should humbly and zealously repent of it all, ever remembering that “it is left with us to remedy the defects in our characters, to cleanse the soul temple of every defilement. Then the latter rain will fall upon us as the early rain fell upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost. . . . Now is the time to heed the admonition of the true Witness.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. V, page 214.

“Pray that the mighty energies of the Holy Spirit, with all their quickening, recuperative, and transforming power, may fall like an electric shock in the palsy-stricken soul, causing every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring the whole man from his dead, earthly, sensual state to spiritual soundness.”—“Testimony for the Church,” No. 32.

Thus will the whole man be sanctified wholly, body, soul, and spirit, made meet for the Master’s use, and preserved blameless to his coming.

Sanitarium, Cal.