of having secured the attention of God. You tell me you know all that. Yes,
you know it; but you need to have your heart filled by the Holy Spirit with
the holy consciousness that the everlasting, almighty God is indeed come
very near you. The loving one is longing to have you for His own. Be still
before God, and wait, and say: "Oh, God, take possession. Reveal Thyself,
not to my thoughts or imaginations, but by the solemn, awe-bringing,
soul-subduing consciousness that God is shining upon me bring me to the
place of dependence and humility."

Prayer may be indeed waiting upon God, but there is a great deal of prayer
that is not waiting upon God. Waiting on God is the first and the best
beginning for prayer. When we bow in the humble, silent acknowledgment
of God's glory and nearness, ere we begin to pray there will be the very
blessing that we often get only at the end. From the very beginning I come
face to face with God; I am in touch with the everlasting omnipotence of
love and I know my God will bless me. Let us never be afraid to be still
before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we
go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be
with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that
we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the
presence of God.

Oh, that God might make every minister what Moses was at the foot of Mount
Sinai; "Moses led the people out to meet God," and they did meet Him until
they were afraid. Let every minister ask with all the earnestness his
soul can command, that God may deliver him from the sin of preaching and
teaching without making the people feel first of all: "The man wants to
bring us to God Himself." It can be felt, not only in the words, but in the
very disposition of the humble, waiting, worshiping heart. We must carry
this waiting into all our worship; we will have to make a study of it; we