October 8
Be definite in prayer
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matt. 7:7).
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24).
Be definite in prayer to God. How wearisome indefiniteness is! Some of you who stand behind the counters in drapers’ shops know what a nuisance an indefinite woman is. She comes and looks at half-a-dozen articles, and turns everyone of them over, but she cannot find what she wants. At last she does find what she wants, but she cannot make up her mind to pay the price for it. Oh, let us be businesslike with God in this matter. He has paid the price, all we have to do is to “ask and receive.”
—Reader Harris.