I. God's Great Desire

From the book: The Kneeling Christian by Albert Richardson If you have faith and doubt not … all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. Mt 21:22 “God wondered.” This is a striking thought. The very boldness of the idea ought to arrest the attention of every earnest Christian man, woman, and child. A wondering God. How staggered we might be if we knew the cause of God’s “wonder.” Yet we apparently find it to be a very little thing. But if we are willing to consider the matter carefully, we shall discover it to be of greatest possible importance to every believer on the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing else is so momentous – so vital – to our spiritual welfare. God wondered that there was no intercessor (Isa. 59:16). But this was in the days of long ago, before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, full of grace and truth. This was before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, full of grace and power, who helps our weakness; … but the...