If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what you
will, and it shall be done unto you.--JOHN xv. 7.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.--MARK
xi. 24.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all
men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let
him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a
wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that
man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.--JAMES i.5-7.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He
that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,
because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will
of God.--ROMANS viii. 26,27.

I have not taken the texts in the order in which they stand, but in
the order in which they logically follow one another, and in which
they elucidate the subject.

And now, in the few remarks I wish to make, I shall try to embody
answers to the letters I have received on this subject. There is no
experience, perhaps, more common in these days than this, nothing
more constantly said to me by professing Christians: "Well, I have
prayed a long time for certain things, but I don't seem to get any
answers to my prayers." I often wonder such people don't give up