“ I am convinced that we have far too shallow views of that command to pray for our enemies. It means vastly more than to say, ‘God bless our foes.’ It means that we are to take them on our heart in good earnest, and intercede for them, particularly, lovingly, perseveringly—pray for them till out of a loving heart we can unite their highest welfare with our own.. . .
“Not only must we pray long and fervently for our positive foes, but pray much for religious people who are cold and severe to us; for if we do not keep our hearts warm and pure, and very tender to everybody on earth, we lose that sweet sense of oneness with Jesus which is worth more than all the friendships of creatures.” (pp. 80-81)
“Every man’s character depends on his prayers. It will be seen, at the final judgment, that all holy character will be in exact conformity to what has been the prayer-life of the individual. There is a history to prayer which is so interior and spiritual that we ourselves are not able to analyze it, or to mark its various degrees, and it would take the intelligence of an angel to write out the history of the prayers of God’s people. Doubtless, it is this that will be manifested at the time that the prayers of all saints are brought to their culmination and completion.” (page 83.)
The above quotations are taken from How They Prayed Volume Two. This book is the second in a three volume series which are published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.
If you find this busy age crowding out time for prayer you are not alone. The saintliest believers today are having a struggle. It seems the enemy is doing his utmost to distract God’s children from what is their greatest weapon against him. Battles are won or lost before the fight begins. There are so many factors that make for victory. David had the victory well before he ever heard of Goliath. We do well to associate with victors if we are to gain the victory ourselves. Try reading “How They Prayed” or “They Knew Their God” for encouragement.
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Not in the tumult of the rending storm,
Not in the earthquake or devouring flame,
But in the hush that could all fear transform,
The still, small whisper to the Prophet came.
O Soul, keep silence on the mount of God
Though cares and needs thro round thee like a sea;
From supplications and desires unshod,
Be still, and hear what God shall say to thee.
O rest, in utter quietude of soul,
Abandon words, leave prayer and praise awhile,
Let thy whole being, hushed in His control,
Learn the full meaning of His voice and smile.
–Mary Rowles Jarvis.
This poem can be found on page 98 in the third volume in the How They Prayed Series, written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers.
Many of us have some sort of filing cabinet in our possession. We may be in the habit of filing away past letters especially if we run a home business. We file away past tax forms, legal documents, drawings and letters of our children when young—the list could go on and on. For a few of us, however, filing is more than a pastime—it is a business, you could almost say, an obsession. This was true of my mother, Lillian Harvey, who, over the years, built up a room full of filing cabinets in which were stored thousands of clippings, articles, and sermons from a wide variety of books and magazines. Years ago, when spending most of the winter in bed on account of severe bronchitis attacks, mother read avidly and began to set aside passages which would touch her heart. These she eventually would file away under topics, or by Scriptural passages, or under biographical headings.
Then, one day, she and her husband, Edwin, were reading together when several verses 12 and 13 from Psalm 48 struck them forcibly: “Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.” This seemed to them a word from the Lord especially for them—the towers, bulwarks and palaces represented the church fathers; reformers; missionaries; pastors; authors and martyrs of past generations. Edwin and Lillian were to preserve their stories, their exhortations, their examples for the present generation and generations to come. True, many readers might have heard of these saints, but only vaguely and some not at all. By compiling books from their files, Edwin and Lillian would be able not only to bless the reader with the quotations used, but introduce them to the books from which these clippings had been taken.
And so Kneeling We Triumph Vols. One and Two; The Christian’s Daily Challenge; The Royal Series; Soul Sculpture and many others were painstakingly compiled and printed and are still available in the Online Christian Bookstore of Harvey Christian Publishers.
–Trudy Harvey Tait
Patricia St. John, author and former missionary to Morocco, is well known for her children’s books. Treasures of the Snow, Tanglewoods’ Secrets, Star of Light, to mention just a few, have been read and treasured in many Christian homes both in Great Britain and here in the USA. Patricia also wrote biographies and various other helpful devotional books.
Edwin F. Harvey, co-author of many of the books published by Harvey Christian Publishers, passed away December, 1983. After his death, his wife, Lillian, began collecting many of his editorials and articles as he was editor for many years of the periodical, The Message of Victory, published in Great Britain where Edwin resided for many years. This collection is called Let My People Go, which was the title of a series of articles which focus on the need of God’s people being liberated from many things which bind them and hinder their spiritual development. This book contains additional articles entitled: “Battle for the New Birth”; “The Holy Spirit, Lord, Alone”; “Godlessness and an Indifferent Church”; Mighty Works—Ours or Christ’s?”; Intercessors needed; “Signs and Wonders—True and False”; “Public Enemy Number One”; “Waiters Wanted”; “Satan’s Counterfeit plot”; “Membership in Christ Demands Holy Living”; “The Storm in Your Heart”; “Life by Crisis—Godliness by Process”; “Discriminate or Die.” Let me Go is available in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Bookstore.
—-Trudy Tait
Compilations can be intriguing; compilations can be boring; compilations can be most helpful; compilations can be rather confusing; compilations can be off-putting; compilations can be awesome. It all depends on who did the compiling and what material was available.
The compilations published by Harvey Christian Publishers and available in their Online Christian Bookstore were put together by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. Years ago when living in the north of England, Lillian suffered severe bronchitis every winter which confined her to bed for days if not weeks at a time.
We of Harvey Christian Publishers are proud to present seven books dedicated to the subject of prayer. We are aware that there are many books on this subject currently available on today’s market, but ours are unique in that they contain many voices from different time periods, cultures, and denominational backgrounds, all harmonizing to present the same message: prayer is essential to the believer; prayer links us to our Creator and Sustainer and is our veritable lifeline at all times, in all places, and under every circumstance.
As in the other volumes in the They Knew Their God Series written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, the men and women in this book are from a variety of eras, cultures, and denominational backgrounds. The first sketch presents us with the commentators Philip and Matthew Henry whose lives spanned the years 1631-1714. Philip began his ministry as an Anglican priest but refused to sign the Act of Uniformity and so became a non-conformist. The second and third sketches cover the lives of American Methodists Freeborn and Catherine Garretson, both born in the mid eighteenth century. Next comes John Gossner, a Roman Catholic priest from Bavaria who eventually and rather reluctantly became Protestant in order to have more freedom to preach the Word.
