More Of What We Can Learn From T. L., Daisy, And D. L.: The Love Of God Caused The Reward

D. L. Moody, that is. How much does a mother love her child? An immeasurable amount. How much does God love us? So much so He gave His Son to die in our stead, to return us to Him. That returned state is the Gospel, the reward God gives us for believing that it is so. In it we have no condemnation, but reconciliation, for Christ has done away with all guilt. ALL OF IT, for it was all on the Son. Learning of and believing God's love for us is the first step in D. L. Moody's book The Way To God (1983, Whitaker House).

How then to pray? Searching around for the Love of God as a topic I ran into a book about T. L. Osborn, Legacy of Faith Collection: T.L. Osborn, the Pioneer of Mass Miracle Evangelism (2011, Osborn Ministries International, Tulsa: Harrison House Publishers--if you want evidence of Jesus Christ, take a good look at the book's cover; link: https://christiandiet.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Legacy-Of-Faith-T.L.-Osborn-Christiandiet.com_.ng_.pdf). The Table of Contents led me to chapters 17 and 18, "God's Love Plan" and "Victorious Prayer" (excerpts from God's Love Plan). The first captioned section of Victorious Prayer, "Prayers that Bear No Fruit," made me think of Thomas Westbrook's Christian experience. The Osborns were Pentecostal missionaries to India who failed miserably. They were zealous, earnest, and wrong. It took them years to learn how to pray aright. "We realized that the two things we prayed for the most would never be answered by God because, (1) we were asking Him to do what He had already accomplished through Christ’s sacrifice, and (2) we were asking Him to do what He had already commissioned us to do" (pg. 292 of 351). The chapter is very insightful, which see. Remember Fenton's teaching regarding the Lord's Prayer, page 299 of 351: "Your name must be being hallowed, Your kingdom must be being restored, Your will must be being done." God is on a course!!

And catch how the Osborns prayed "per the Bible" after years of correction, page 300 of 351.

I will work on it and post next.