It isn't always possible to get to a prayer meeting these busy days, and so much to be done. But I wonder could we be in our, wherever we may be. The Lord knows there's no respect for the places. If you're driving your car along the road there, you can just bring it away like that. But it says watch and pray, so keep your hands open when you're at that job in the car. Or boy, you'll be an undertaker for as much as you live. But you women there, when you get your children away, and you get your mother to work, Would you not sit down and take 15 minutes to do a bit of praying? It'll do your body a whole lot of good. It'll do your soul a whole lot of good. And it'll bring blessing upon the meeting night by night. Would you do that? Now you try to do that, you'll find the devil will begin to get busy. Somebody will be knocking at the door. Telephone will begin to ring. The pot will begin to boil. Oh, that dirty pig will be at anything to keep you back from praying. He'll move earth and hell. He'll not get anything wrong. He'll get things right. But he'll get the right things to keep you back from praying. The devil's not concerned much about preaching, he's not concerned much about meetings, but boy, he's concerned about prayer. When the weakness sits on his knees, that's when the devil begins to tremble. And he'll move worse than hell if he can only just keep you and me from praying. He'll keep us busy about anything. We'll talk to our neighbors across the fence there, across the hedge, and we'll have a nice social time, but then we'll now deny that, for at least this week, and just give yourself ten or fifteen minutes in the morning to prayer. I wonder when you do that. You manage your work, you can be busy with your hands there, and yet you can give your heart up to prayer. And as we wait upon the Lord, He tells us, glory to God, there's no knowing what He'll do, if we'd only give Him half a chance. So would you do that? We don't covet a penny from any of you. I'm sure I say that in the name of the Christian Workers' Union. We don't covet for a penny, but boy, we do greedily covet your prayers. We do greedily covet your prayers, and we desire that you'll join with us along that line. So at half past seven every night, those of you who can manage will gather in here, and then we'll gather to have the meeting every night. If the Lord carries, He may not carry, and He may not let us get at it either. I thought sometime ago there that maybe my day was done and my work was done, but here we're at it again and again. And God knows how long He may keep us at it either. You know dear friends, before the Lord died, He left us a good deal of instructions. And a very good many things he gave his instruction concerning. The largest portion of the instruction was regarding the Holy Spirit. What he would do, what he would come, and that he would come. And what he would do with all his followers and all his believers. But he took up the matter of prayer too. And he has left his instruction regarding prayer. You know when people come to die, or imagine they are coming to die, they are very sober. Everybody else around the person is sober about it. And whatever conversation may be engaged in, it'll be a sober thing, a real thing. And you couldn't imagine that it'd be frivolous or untruthful. You'd believe that it'd be sincere and truthful, whatever the conversation would be. Now, Jesus Christ, before He died, He left us instructions regarding the Mother of Prayer. And I want to talk to you, while this evening, on this Mother of Prayer. In John chapter 14, And verse 13, now here's what he says, Whatsoever ye shall ask, whatsoever ye shall ask, in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Ask anything, ask anything, in my name, and I'll do it. I believe he meant what he said, don't you? I believe he said what he meant. And I believe He knew what He was talking about. Some people say things they don't know what they're talking about. But Jesus knew what He was talking about. When you take the Gospel of John 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, these are the final farewell words of Jesus before He went there to die for us men and for our salvation. And these words are the words of Jesus a few hours before He went there to die. Whatsoever ye shall have, whatsoever ye shall ask, in my name, I'll do it. I'll do it. Ask anything, anything, in my name, and I'll do it. Now some of you are looking at me there, with a way of scredulity under your eyes. Is Jesus Christ a liar? Are you questioning his word? Whatever you ask, I'll do it. Ask anything. I'll do it. It's a lie? Is he telling the truth? We all say we believe he's telling the truth. Well, is he telling the truth now? Whatsoever ye shall ask. Now, don't boil it down. Whatever is just like whosoever. Whosoever means everybody and excludes nobody. Whatsoever means everything and excludes nothing. Whatsoever, whatsoever, ye shall ask. I'll do it. Ask anything. Now don't boil it. Anything means anything. Whatsoever means whatsoever. A fellow gets up to me and says he denies the deity of Christ and denies his word has been infallible. Aren't they narrow? Well, I feel sorry for that kind of a fool. But when a fool tells me he believes it, and then begins to tell me this is something, this means something else, you want to watch that rascal. Whether he's got a collar turned by the back of his neck, or a black nightshirt on, I'm watching him. As sure as you live, he's going to pull the wool on you. And you hear them saying, well, whatsoever, it doesn't mean exactly that, you know. It means something else, that dirty liar. It's either true or it's a lie. And to be able to talk along that line is to handle the Word of God deceitfully. And how many are doing it? And then they'll say, well, you'll get something, you'll not get what you ask. But he said, whatsoever you ask, you'll not get something, you'll get what you ask. He says, if your son asks bread, will you give him a stone? If he ask fish, will he give him a scorpion? If he ask an egg, will he give him a snake? And if ye, knowing how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give good gifts to them that ask? Whatever you are, now don't mind it, whatever means whatever. Pair of shoes, breath on your back, hat on your head, a job, healing of your body, sanctifying your soul, Say to yourself, whatsoever. Don't do it, boil it, whatever you do. It means exactly what it says. Whatsoever. Whatsoever. Ask anything. Anything. Anything. Yes, I'll do it. Well, boys, does it look like that in your experience? Many of our experiences, doesn't it? How many times have you asked, what did you get? And many things have he asked for and never received. That's a problem. That's a problem. And it's that big a problem that they've given up praying in many of the churches now. Because in the church up in Palomino there, they have what they don't call a prayer meeting, they say it's a meditation. And you meditate. You meditate. So if you imagine sitting down at the table and the wife's saying, You're not going to get what you're asking a meal here, you're going to meditate. You'll think it'll be a good time to get to your son by the George Patrick Butthouse. Coming along that way. And yet, hey, we got it. They'll say, oh yes, keep on praying, and you'll get something. I don't want something. When I asked my mother for a bread, a piece of good fern and salmon butter on it, I didn't want a scallop. I wanted a piece of bread. Whatsoever you ask. whatsoever you ask. Ask anything and I'll do it. Well, has that happened in your life? He that asketh, findeth. He that seeketh, he that loveth, it'll be opened. And yet, what a gulf there is between that and our own experience along the line of prayer. I'm not talking about unconverted people now. I'm talking about those of us who are washed in the blood and born of the Spirit. Why how long this matter? Why have you given up praying in your life? If I asked today, how many of you spent ten minutes alone in prayer to rise to your feet? Boy, it would show you what a desert we've got here. Ten minutes in prayer. I had a brother-in-law, a professor in a college, and when I was running a church in Scotland yonder, had a night of prayer once every month. Half night of prayer once a week. He said, what on earth do you do? He says, I never spent a night in prayer. There are multitudes of the Lord's people and that's what they think about prayer. Some kind of a lovely habit. Some kind of nice thing. Some kind of religious thing. But you don't get anywhere. You don't get anything. So they quit the prayer. Whether the night used to be the church's prayer meeting night. See what happens now. It's generally a picture show. It may be a missionary picture show, but it's a missionary picture show. It may be a lecture. It may be a Bible reading. Anything but prayer. Anything but prayer. Sometimes when we get into a corner, and get into trouble, we'll say, well, I suppose I could do nothing else but pray. That's what we think about. Now, I'd like to remember a whole lot of that in, dear friends. I was hearing about a person that was preaching one time, And he said lovely things, but his eye listens to his ideas, but he's not rubbing them in. Mrs. Ributh of the Salvation Army, she said she believed the Holy Ghost to convict, but he expected me to rub it at the same time. Rub it in. Whatsoever you shall ask. Whatsoever. Whatsoever. Do you hear? Whatsoever. Ask anything. anything. And a jurist says, I'll do it. He's either a liar or he's good. He means it or he doesn't. He can do it or he can't. But that's what he said. Those were his dying words. These disciples are being comforted. He was going to leave them. And he says, whatsoever ye ask, whatsoever ye ask, in my name, I'll do it. Ask anything. I'm rubbing it in. Ask anything. He says, I'll give it to you. Well, dear friend, when I was a good deal younger than I am now, and when I was beginning to preach, that's a long time too, I got to the place where I was going to quit preaching and praying, or else solve this problem. I was going to quit. This prayin' and prayin' and prayin' and prayin' doesn't happen. Or getting anything that you want. What's the good of it? You're wasting your time. Making a fool out of yourself. And I wanted to be in an honest job. And I couldn't stand in the preacher behind the desk and talk about praying and praying and didn't believe in it. I was honest enough with that. Go and earn an honest living. But I got a solution. And that solution has studied me nearly 60 years. Reaching up and down the country, nearly every country in the world. We're 12 times in the world. Help me fast. I believe literally the words of Jesus. Whatsoever ye shall ask, ask anything, and I'll do it. Do you notice the sublime simplicity of the conditions? You get some of these big rich fellows that leave a trust, or a fund, or a foundation, and boy, you see them legally. statements that's made in the preface that's given to you before the document is read out. Why you dub it? You have about five lawyers to understand it, and then they'll fight like devils for the love of God and three judges to see what they're going to do. Now look, Jesus says, whatsoever you ask, ask anything, and then listen, here's the condition. In. My. Name. Nine letters. Three wee words. If you've got enough brains to give you a headache, in my name. That's the condition. Whatsoever you ask, in my name. Ask anything, in my name. Say you'll get it. In these farewell words, seven times he uses that in my name. That name had never been heard in heaven before, but when, something new, something new. Jesus Christ has brought something to pass. What so ever you should ask. Ask anything in my name. In my name. In my name. And I will do it. Not a dirty burden dear friend. Not a dirty burden. He'll do it. Now here's what, here's the solution that I had, and have, and that's kept me going. What do you mean by in my name? What do you mean? Well, there are three legitimate ways that you can use a name. Three legitimate ways. There is, first of all, the filial way. There is, second, the marital way. And, third, the commercial way. Now, let us look at it a wee while. The filial way. The formal way. My name's William Pattinson Nicholson. Oh, Mr. Pattinson. was sixty-six years minister of the Trinity Church. They baptized me and banged me here. But the last before he passed away. And they called me after that old fella. William Pattison Nicholson. I'm not here under a non-diplomat. I'm not as banged as John Jackson and Jimmy Thompson when I get down yonder in Budapest. Or Billy Morgan or someone else somewhere else. No. Everywhere I go. I've got the family name. Legitimate name. I have a right to it. Why? I was born in the family. How do I know? My mother said one day, she says, there's your father. And I'll tell you something. That chief has never heard about that. And I've never heard anybody stand up and challenge that. that I didn't bring a little protest. I'm not an illegitimate. I'm well born. And all I have is the word of a sinner, saved by grace. God be with you, my mother. There's your father. Dead sure, well satisfied, family name. I would like to use it. 22nd of May, Eighteen hundred and nineteen. In the old home on Princeton Road, in a chair in the kitchen waiting for breakfast. I'd been wandering around the world and spending my life in the riotous living. And I came home, just about a fortnight home. And I was sitting there smoking, reading the paper. My mother was getting ready for the breakfast. And suddenly, suddenly, consciously, powerfully, glory to God eternally, I was converted in a moment's time. In a moment's time, one moment I was a child of the devil going to hell, and the next moment a child of God and an heir of God in a joint heir with Christ. Don't look at me, I'll tell you God's truth. And I became a child of God, and I'm in the family. And I have a right to the name. I have a right to the name. Tell me, dear friend, is this solving your problem? Oh God, my Father, oh God in heaven, Father, would you help me, would you do this, would you do that? And nothing happened. Are you in the family? Have you been born again? If you haven't, you're tugging at the wrong skirt. You're chopping at the wrong door. God's not your father. Oh, I thought God was the father of everything. Oh, what happened to your leg? I go down the street there and a wee fella comes and tugs at my shirt, coat tail, and he says, Daddy? Oh, you brat, you go over there. I'm not your daddy. I'm not the daddy of every kid that's knocking around. God's not the father of every black, is it? Why isn't God the father? No, no, no. God's not the father of the devil. There's not a damned child in hell. And there never will be a damned child in hell. And there's not a child of God on the road to hell. Who's on the road to hell? Children of the devil. Who's on the road to hell? Children of God. Have you been born again? It's just as necessary to be born again to get into God's family as it was to me to be born to get into my father and mother's family. There's no other way but birth. No substitute. You can be baptized, catechized, confirmed, vaccinated, eat fish and fruit and wipe your nose and say your prayers. But that doesn't make a difference. That doesn't change you from one family to the other. You may be as upright as those who put pillars. You may be as clean as a house till. You may be as decent and respectable as anybody that ever lived. But that doesn't make you a child of God. You can pray like an outlaw. You can be as generous as anybody can be. That doesn't make you a child of God. Have you been born again? Jesus says ye must. An imperative necessity. Ye must be born again. Born again. And when you're born again, then of course, you're in the family. You've got God as your Father. Jesus Christ as your Savior and Elder Brother. Comforter as the Sanctifier and Guiding Friend. You're in the family. I want to make that clear to you friends. There's a queer lot of people and they're going to hell. Don't do it. There's a queer lot of people and they're out to hell. Think they're going to hell? Just because they're respectable and decent and church and all the rest of it? No, no. Jesus said, many will say unto me in that day, Lord, notice, we have preached in thy name. Do you mean to tell me every preacher goes to hell? He does if he's not born again. And Jesus says, there's many of them not born again. But they're using the name. Preaching in the name. Orthodox Christ material. Good Baptist, fine Lutherans, Presbyterians, Roman Catholic Jews or Gentiles, fine! But you see they're not in the name, they're not in the promise. Many, many says Jesus, many, from the pulpit to the pit, from the church to the caverns and the dam, from the song singing to the weeping and the wailing and the gnawing of teeth. That's a terrible thing, isn't it? So are you born again, dear friend? You've been born of God-fearing parents? You've been baptized into covenant grace? You've been brought up in a decent, respectable, religious way? You've joined church, Sunday school, choir member? Oh, fine. Lantern or a deacon of the church? Pillar? I'd better get a pillar. Never been born again? Never been saved? Never been converted? I was holding a meeting in the Presbyterian Church in White Inch in Glasgow one day, and in the after meeting I noticed a lady there was being dealt with by some of the workers, which was in a terrible, hysterical way. And after a wee while I stepped up and I said, if you'll just stay to one side and pray, I'll have a wee word. And I took her hand and covered it, and I said, Ma'am, I'm awful sorry for you. Must have been some terrible tragedy in your life that has made you feel like this. I'm awful sorry for you. I'd like to help you. She quietened down a wee bit. Says, could you tell me what's wrong? Oh, she says, I've quit going to church. I'm sure you have, so would I if I was in your shoes. I've quit praying. Oh, she says, I know. I feel about that too. I don't believe anymore. No, indeed, she says, I'm sure you don't. I just would feel that way if what you had, what I'll hear, but I just feel the same way. Said, what was it? She was in the first war. She was a widow. She's only one boy. And he was caught in a draft. And it broke her heart. When he left the home that morning, she got back in there and after a while she just, she said accidentally opened the bag. And she came across these verses. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do. Ask anything in my name, I'll do it. She says, Father, I trust you for that. She said he's dead and buried in France. She says, Sister, will you tell me something? Were you ever converted? Are you saved? Have you been born again? No, she couldn't say that. I'm a church member. Say my prayers. Say, who are you praying to? Our Father in Heaven. Oh no. Your Father is not in Heaven. Say, your Father is the Old Devil. Not God. Who? Why? She says, isn't God the Father of everything? Oh no, no. Oh no. God's not the Father of cats and dogs and pigs and cows and horses and fleas and bugs. No. He's not that. He's the Creator. He's the creator of everybody, but he's not the father of everybody. He's only the father of those who are born again, have been converted by faith in Jesus Christ. And sisters, maybe there's where your problem's been. Oh, I've prayed and prayed. What's the good of it? I don't go to a permit anymore. I don't bother my friends. I may be put through a wee bit of it now and again, but that's nothing, nothing to it. Does this solve your problem? Have you ever been saved? Are you a converted woman or a man? Are you born again? You couldn't be born again and not know it. You couldn't be saved and not know it. If you don't know or not sure, you can be dead sure that you're not. But thank God you can be born again suddenly. And lead the family of the dead. And instantaneously become a child of God. So that this very minute you can look up and say, My Father, My Father. Which I didn't have. You have a legitimate use to the name. But if you're not born again, you have no right to the name. You have no right to the name at all. Maybe that's where you are. You've been praying and praying and praying this, that or the other. But you're not born again. You're tugging at the wrong skirt. Chopping at the wrong door. And then the second way. If we're to use this name, but it's the filial way. We've got to be in the family. Family business. Second, it's a matrimonial way. Well, why, why, why, my wife and I got married, they called her Collette. That is the name. C-O-L-L-E-T-E. Fine old English name. But I say, since we got married, I haven't heard that name used. I haven't seen that name written down. When she writes a letter, it's Nicholson. And boy, when she writes the check, she puts the right name on it. Don't you forget it. There's not a court in the country that wouldn't stand by her. She has been legally married. Lawfully wed. And it was a good wedding. It wasn't forced. You know there's a lot of people and they get engaged to be married. But they don't get married. Something happens. And there's a lot of people, after they got engaged to the Lord, maybe in a mission meeting, an evangelistic meeting, or some service, or some experience or another, they took a notion of the Lord, made a profession. And they became engaged. But they've never been married. Never been married. Just disposed, engaged. Never been married. I wonder, dear friend, does that touch your problem at all? You've been praying nothing happens? Asking and not receiving? Seeking and not finding? Knocking and no door open? Have you been married? Are you really wed to the Lord? strange mystical union. Are you really wed to the Lord? Are you His bride? Or did you just get engaged and then maybe you got persecuted or something happened or some experience came in, sorrow and tragedy came in and the Lord tells us that the seed that fell on the ground grew up and because of these things it faded away. And the hewer faded away. You don't bother about praying much. You don't know any intimacy about the Lord and communion and fellowship with Him. You're not married. And then, dear friends, some of you are married to the Lord, but you're divorced by the Lord. You see, the Lord has made allowance in marital affairs. If you can't get together, you can be divorced. That is, your communion is destroyed, but not your union. When you're married according to the Bible, you're married forever. While life shall last. If either one dies, then that relationship does not exist. You can be married again. But while both of you live, and you marry, you're living in adultery. You're a whoremonger. The Bible says. How many are like that today? Well, dear friends, God believes in divorce still. Friendship with the Word is enmity with God. If you be a friend of the Word, you're an enemy of God. And the Lord says that if you've got into that state, flirting with the Word, Card parties. Cocktail parties. Tobacco chewing and smoking. Your picture shows. The world in it. And you're partying with the world. Other lovers. Other loss and health. It's divorce. There's no communion between you now, but you're still health. You're still health. If divorce, if divorce here means the annihilation, then you've gone to the place where you get deceived and lost. No, no. When you're in a church, when a woman gets separated from her husband legally, she can't benefit in that man's estate anymore. It's stopped. All communion and communication is stopped legally. And when you search for the Word, and you're dancing and carrying on with the Word, and it's secret societies and lodges and one thing and another, you're divorced. No contact with Him. You can pray to the crack of doom until your face is black. He'll not hear you. He says, touch not the unclean thing. Come out from among them if it separates. And he says, I will be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. If you want to get into living union again with the Lord, and come union with Him, fellowship with Him, and to the direct legitimate use of His name, get back. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He'll take you back to the sisterhood, brother. But you've got to turn and get away from it. Come out through a mountain. Be separate. Touch not the unclean thing. He says, I'll be a father to you. You're going to be settled. The fellowship will be opened up again. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, He says, I'll give it to you. Has this been the reason why you haven't had any fellowship? Courting and flirting with the Lord? With the Word? Untrue to Jesus Christ and your vows to Him? And then you expect Him to answer? Oh no. Expect Him to sustain? No. To bless? Oh no, no. You've got to get right. And if tonight where you are and as you are, if this is the solution of your problem, if you'll only come out from among, have done with the thing, get into fellowship with the Lord, whatsoever you should ask, says, I'll do it. And then the last way you can use the name is the commercial way. Supposing Brother Flanagan and I had a business together. And we were partners together in a business. I don't know what it would be, but suppose, and we'll suppose it, that has happened. I go to my lawyer and say, lawyer, I've got a partner. I'm going to enter into business with a partner called Flanagan. I'll need you to keep your eye on him. Watch him. And I want you to get a document here that will tie him up, just tie him up well. And that my interest will be safeguarded as a result. So Flanagan goes to his lawyer and he says, This fella Nichols is here, we're going to have a partnership together and boy I'll need a watch. And so I want you to bring up a deed. A deed that will safeguard my interests. Well the time comes whenever we get together the four of us. Lawyer here, lawyer there, Flanagan there and me here. And they'll read my, what I want. And so it's either corrected or accepted. Flanagan has his read and corrected or accepted. Alright, that's out of the two, they get one document. A deed of partnership. Sign the dotted line. Now there's the way the business will be done. And we get on fine and things are prospering well in a way. And then by and by Flanagan gets to what they call Spring's Eve. And he says, I'm going out for a bit of fishing. Going up the mountains to have some recreation and rest and some fishing. That's fine. But that wasn't in the deed, mate. And by and by I checked, come back from Flanagan. He wants money. I'm sweating and working away at the business. Flanagan's working away at the business. I have a big work on hand. A big work. And he has got a company unlimited in this world to carry out that work. And you and I are made partners. We're partners with God. Not only the child of God, not only the bride of Christ, but a partner in God's big business. And that is the Church. When I speak of the Church, I'm not talking about Church of England or Zon or Presbyterian, I'm talking about born-again people, wherever they assemble together, wherever they are, Church. And I'm a partner with God in this big business that God has in hand, saving men and women, Blessing men and women hastening unto the coming of Jesus Christ. Well, I get tired of that. Don't like teaching Sunday school anymore. Get tired of the choir. Get tired of an officer, been an officer in the church. Don't mind being an officer in the Masonic Lodge or something else, but the church are just getting tired of it anyhow. And so we're not in the business. We're not doing anything. In God's business. And you imagine poor old God's got to get that. To take that. And he's got to work, for he said to Jesus, my father worketh and so do I. That are working. God's a working God. And you and I are partners with him. But we've got tires. Or maybe we've got, can you discuss it? Or maybe we've got to annoy this God. For the way God does things. And we'll quit. And still you expect to get the benefit. Just as truly as you and I could be ways, commercial things, gorgeous ways as you and me anyhow. And you can bring us a crack of doom, brother, but when you get busy again, for God you'll be able to get something from it, but not to. Seek first. Not second. Not third. First the kingdom of God and all these things shall be out of thee. But you see, oh well I don't see that I should do this and this that and the other for the Lord. Don't like to take too much bother or if it doesn't hurt me or doesn't interfere with anything I might think about it but just and then we expect God to answer your prayer. Ah no dear friend, if you'll get this, if you'll take the yoke Come unto me, all ye that labour in her heavy laden. I will give you rest, but take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, and you'll find, you'll find." It's what you see, what you ask for, you'll get. What you seek for, you'll find. Tell me, dear friends, does this solve any of your problem of worthless praying things? It has for me. I've never known a man or woman that was a child of God by faith in Christ. the bride of Christ and acted in the work of God that didn't pray and get the answer, that didn't ask and receive, seek and find, know and it shall be opened. But if we're not doing these, well, we can't expect God to answer, can we? Just a word in closing, he doesn't say how, how he'll answer you. Will you mind that? Some of us think that we know better than God, and we ask God for a particular thing, and we tell God how it's got to be done. How it's got to be done. Can't do that. God will arrange about the how, and God will arrange as to how it's done. But you see, so many of us, we just think that God's got to do it along our way. Or a peculiar notion. No. Got to leave that to God. Second, when will He do it? I don't know. I don't know. You can't put your fist under God's nose and say, Lord, I demand immediately. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Jesus Christ said, If it's possible for this cup to pass from me, Father, but not my will, but thy will be done. You've always got to seek God's will about the matter. He knows when it should be done, and He knows how it should be done. We mustn't be impertinent and begin to tell God when and how, but assure if you and I are children of God by faith in Christ, We are really the bread of Christ and true to our vows, seeking to serve the Lord and serving Him day by day. Whatsoever you shall ask, ask anything. When? That's when it's up to God. How? That's up to God. Do you see this? You can leave it in His hands. He'll not be an hour too late, and He'll not do anything that's wrong. It'll be for our good. God working all things together for our good, because we love Him, and it's according to His purpose. It's according to His purpose. He has a plan, He is the architect, and He's working for your good and mine, while we're in the will of God. And He's doing it in His own way, in His own time, and as to how, He knows best. I came across these words, listen. Unanswered yet, the prayers your lips have pleaded in agony of heart these many years? Does faith begin to fail? Is hope departing? And think you all in vain, those falling tears? Say not, the Father hath not heard your prayer. You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere, Unanswered yet? Though when you first presented this one petition at the Father's throne, it seemed you could not wait the time of asking, so urgent was your heart to make it known. Though years have passed since then, do not despair. The Lord will answer you, sometime, somewhere. Unanswered yet? Yea, nay, do not say ungranted. Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done. The work began when first your prayer was uttered, and God will finish what He has begun. If you will keep the incense burning there, His glory you shall see, sometime, somewhere. Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered. Her feet are firmly planted on the rug. Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted, nor quails before the loudest thundershock. She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer, and Christ, it shall be done, sometime, somewhere, not as early with you, friend. As the Lord has blessed me in this that I have been telling you, may it be a blessing to many of you here that this problem of prayer has been a problem in your life in the past.