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    Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer (NASB 1st Person Version)
    Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer (NASB 1st Person Version)
    Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer (NASB 1st Person Version)
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    Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer (NASB 1st Person Version)

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    The classic book on prayer by Matthew Henry is now available for the first time for e-readers! This volume will help you, perhaps as never before, pray the Bible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlliance of Confessing Evangelicals
    Release dateApr 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458061720
    Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer (NASB 1st Person Version)
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    Matthew Henry

    Building upon a stream of exact exegesis beginning with the Reformation, MATTHEW HENRY (1662–1714) achieved a standard of applied analysis that has long marked his work as superior. He is best known for his seven-volume commentary on the Bible, which C. H. Spurgeon declared was "rich in analogies . . . superabundant in reflections . . . suitable to everybody, instructive to all."

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      Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer (NASB 1st Person Version) - Matthew Henry

      Matthew Henry's Method for Prayer

      Edited and revised by Ligon Duncan

      with William McMillan

      Executive Production by Dan Arnold

      Copyright 2009, Dan Arnold and Ligon Duncan.

      Publisher, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals Inc, 1716 Spruce St Philadelphia PA 19103 USA. Smashwords Edition.

      A Method for Prayer was written by Matthew Henry, March 25, 1710. For ease of reading, the editors have sought to update some of the author's language.

      Scripture taken from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      This article may be duplicated in its entirety and without edit, including this full disclaimer for personal, small group, non-commercial use. No more than 200 copies may be made. No electronic use beyond email is permitted. Any use other then those listed herein are forbidden without prior written permission. All rights reserved. ARMHNAS1.

      Material from this book, as well as other resources related to Biblical prayer, may also be accessed online at http://www.matthewhenry.org

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      Preface to the E-Reader Version

      Matthew Henry’s Method for Prayer was re-introduced to the public almost fifteen years ago. Things have changed significantly in the publishing world since then, to say the least! The original reprint of Matthew Henry’s classic included a number of appendices, which are absent from the present version.

      These omissions are not because the material was inferior – far from it! The simple reason was that the appendices have not been modernized to accord with the various newer translations that are available for e-reading platforms. However, the entire book is always available online at www.matthewhenry.org

      With that one caveat, we offer Matthew Henry to a world that he could have scarcely dreamed of. However, even though technology has advanced beyond the world of the 18th century, man’s spiritual needs have remained the same. Particularly today, Christians yearn for closer fellowship with God. Henry’s words concerning prayer, then, are as relevant now as they have ever been.

      I wish also to express my deepest gratitude to the man who has made this e-version of Henry’s book available, Mr. Dan Arnold. Without Dan’s support, neither this book nor the website would have made Henry’s words accessible to so many people.

      Also, there are other Bible versions available of this book, as well as daily emails taken directly from Henry's material to help you pray the Bible. All of these can be found at the web address above.

      I think Matthew Henry would be embarrassed that his book has received so much attention. At the same time, I think he would be grateful to see the latest technology used to honor the Lord Jesus Christ by getting Scriptural prayers into the hands of a new generation of readers – and book formats.

      May the Lord bless you as you pray the Bible,

      J. Ligon Duncan, III

      Jackson, Mississippi

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      CHAPTER 1

      OF THE FIRST PART OF PRAYER, WHICH IS ADDRESS TO GOD, ADORATION OF HIM, WITH SUITABLE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,

      PROFESSIONS, AND PREPARATORY REQUESTS

      Introduction to Adoration

      My spirit being composed into a very reverent serious frame, my thoughts gathered in, and all that is within me charged in the Name of the great God carefully to attend the solemn and awful service that lies before me and to keep close to it, I must, with a fixed attention and application of mind and an active lively faith, set the Lord before me, see His eye upon me, and set myself in His special presence, presenting myself to Him as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which I desire may be my spiritual service of worship; (1) and then bind this festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar, (2) in such thoughts as these:

      Let me now lift up my heart, with my eyes and hands, toward God in heaven. (3)

      Let me arouse myself to take hold of God, (4) to seek his face, (5) and to ascribe to Him the glory due to His name. (6)

      To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. (7)

      Let me now with humble confidence enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, in the new and living way which He inaugurated for His people through the veil. (8)

      Let me now secure undistracted devotion to the Lord, (9) and let not my heart be far from Him when I draw near to Him with my words and honor him with my lips. (10)

      Let me now worship God, who is spirit, in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. (11)

      Address God with Reverence and Awe

      Having thus engaged my heart to approach unto God. (12)

      1. I must solemnly address myself to that infinitely great and glorious Being with whom I have to do, as one who is possessed with a full belief of His presence and a holy awe and reverence of His Majesty, which I may do in such expressions as these:

      Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come! (13)

      O You alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. (14)

      O God, You are my God; I will seek you earnestly; (15) my God, and I will praise You; my fathers’ God, and I will extol You. (16)

      O You who are the true God, the living God, the one only living and true God, and the everlasting King! (17) With your redeemed people I confess your great name: The LORD is my God, the LORD is one! (18)

      And may I thus distinguish myself from the worshippers of false gods.

      The idols of the nations are silver and gold, they are vanity and a lie, the work of man’s hands; those who make them will become like them, everyone who trusts in them. (19) But the portion of Jacob is not like these, for the Maker of all is He, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; the LORD of hosts is His name; (20) God over all, blessed forevermore. (21)

      Their rock is not like my Rock, even the enemies themselves judge this; (22) for he is the Rock of ages, GOD the LORD, who is an everlasting Rock, (23) whose name is everlasting and whose remembrance is to all generations, (24) when the gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens. (25)

      Reverently Adore God

      2. I must reverently adore God, as a Being transcendently bright and blessed, self-existent, and self-sufficient, an infinite and eternal Spirit who has all perfections in Himself, and give Him the glory of His titles and attributes.

      O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a cloak; (26) and yet as to me, you make darkness Your hiding place, (27) for I cannot arrange my case because of darkness. (28)

      This is the message that I have heard from you, and I set my seal to it that it is true: That God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all; (29) and, that God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. (30)

      You are the Father of light, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow, and from whom proceed every good thing and every perfect gift. (31)

      You are the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alones possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. (32)

      I must acknowledge His Being to be unquestionable and past dispute.

      The heavens are telling of your glory, O God, and their expanse is declaring the work of Your hands; (33) and your eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen and understood through what has been made. (34) So that they are fools without excuse, who say, There is no God; (35) for surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth (36) and in heaven too!

      I therefore come to you believing that You are and that You are the powerful and bountiful rewarder of those who seek You. (37)

      Yet I must own His nature to be incomprehensible.

      I cannot discover the depths of God; I cannot discover the limits of the Almighty. (38)

      Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable. (39)

      Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD? Or can show forth all His praise? (40)

      And his perfections to be matchless and without compare.

      Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? (41)

      Who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD? O LORD God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. (42)

      There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like Yours. For You are great and do wondrous deeds; You alone are God. (43)

      No creature has an arm like God, or can thunder with a voice like His. (44)

      And that He is infinitely above us and all other beings.

      You are God and not man; You do not have eyes of flesh, nor do You see as a man sees. Your days are not as the days of a mortal, nor your years as man’s years. (45)

      As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are Your thoughts higher than my thoughts, and Your ways than my ways. (46)

      All the nations before You are like a drop from the bucket or a speck of dust on the scales, and You lift up the islands like fine dust; they are as nothing, and are regarded by You as less than nothing and meaningless. (47)

      Acknowledge God's Eternality and Omnipresence

      Particularly in my adorations I must acknowledge:

      (A.) That He is an eternal God, immutable, without beginning of days or end of life or change of time.

      You are the King eternal, immortal, invisible. (48)

      Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God; (49) the same yesterday and today and forever. (50)

      Of old You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; and all of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end. (51)

      You, O God, do not change; therefore is it that I am not consumed. (52)

      Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? (53) The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, who does not become weary or tired; Your understanding is inscrutable. (54)

      (B.) That He is present in all places, and there is no place in which He is included or out of which he is excluded.

      You are a God who is near and not a God far off; no man can hide himself in hiding places so that You do not see him, for You fill the heavens and the earth. (55)

      You are not far from each one of us. (56)

      I cannot go anywhere from Your presence or flee from Your Spirit: If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, in the depths of the earth, behold, You are there; if I take the wings of the dawn and dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me, (57) for I cannot outrun You.

      Recognize God's Perfect Knowledge and Unsearchable Wisdom

      (C.) That He has a perfect knowledge of all persons and things, and sees them all, even that which is most secret, at one clear, certain, and unerring view.

      All things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom I have to do, even the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (58)

      Your eyes are in every place, watching the evil and the good. (59) They move to and fro throughout the earth that You may strongly support those whose hearts are completely Yours. (60)

      You search the heart and test the mind, so that You may give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds. (61)

      O God, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thoughts from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways: Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O LORD, You know it all. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is too high, I cannot attain to it. (62)

      Darkness and light are alike to You. (63)

      (D.) That His wisdom is unsearchable, and the counsels and designs of it cannot be fathomed.

      Your understanding, O Lord, is infinite, for You count the number of the stars and give names to all of them. (64)

      You have made Your counsel wonderful and Your wisdom great; (65) You are wise in heart and mighty in strength. (66)

      O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; (67) all according to the counsel of Your will. (68)

      Oh, the depth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! (69)

      Acknowledge God's Incontestable Sovereignty and Irresistible Power

      (E.) That His sovereignty is incontestable, and He is the owner and absolute Lord of all.

      The heavens are Your heavens, (70) and all their hosts. The earth is Yours, and all it contains; the world, and those who dwell in it. (71) In Your hand are the depths of the earth, and

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