78. Gift in Prayer

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“H. H. L.,” Chepstow. We do not think you should be disturbed, as to your security in Christ, by your want of utterance in prayer, provided the heart be really engaged. “The Spirit maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” There may be great fluency in prayer, without a single particle of the Spirit, or of heart either. We do not exactly understand you when ye say, “The Gospel most certainly is preached, but Christ is not exalted. Many a sermon have I heard without the name of Jesus being once mentioned or referred to; so that, like Mary, I have been led to cry out, ‘They have taken away my Lord.’” We cannot conceive how the gospel could ever be preached without exalting Christ, and prominently presenting the blessed Lord Jesus. A ministry that could be characterized by taking away the Lord is “most certainly” not a Gospel ministry at all.