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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. HOW GOD GIVES.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Call unto me."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "Ask and it shall be given."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. People accustom to thinking our asking is the thing that influences God's giving.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. How man gives.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Called on by right party.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Approached tactfully.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Told how he will benefit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Persisted upon.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Waits only long enough to be certain of need and how much needed, then gives.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Looks for, places to give. Those with same sympathies as His.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Chino Mission.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Y.M.C.A.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Libraries.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Some think God gives as first man, others as second.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">Neither illustrates God's giving.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">Third comes closest.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Our world prodigal.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. God anxious to win it back.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Necessary for man's free and glad consent.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. "Call unto Me."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Acting doubly away from opposite and to God Calling point of sympathetic contact. (Where God's purposes and our purposes become the same).</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. DOES PRAYER INFLUENCE GOD?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Some say No.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Some say Yes.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Both right.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not in all their theories.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. But in General conclusion.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">Yes - No.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. It does not influence His purpose.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. It does influence His action.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Every right thing I ever prayed for God has already purposed to do.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. My prayers show my consent so He is free to do it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">(When we learn His purposes and make them our prayers opportunity to</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">act).</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. SUPPOSE I WANT SOMETHING VERY MUCH AND NEED.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. I ask but don't receive he hesitates.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. I am incessant God yields Loving God? Certainly.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Suppose God thinking about me all the time planning etc., wanting to give me things.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. I do not yet realize my need.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Liable to abuse it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Finally I realize my need and ask.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">He is glad to see change in me and willingly gives.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">"Your Father knows what things ye have need of before you ask."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">Loving Father.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">Say give you anything you want you choose.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">Prayer cannot change His purpose for every right and good thing we need he had already planned to give.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">PRAYER CHANGES ACTION</div>
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