Brief Thoughts For Busy Teachers
International Sunday School Lesson A s Taught by T. C. Horton at the Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cal.
prepare by prayer for the coming con-
, shall we hope to overcome with- Jesus Walks on the Sea (Matt 14:22-36) out it? If He needed to wait upon Golden Te x t -Ma t t. 14:33. God for strength for service, shall not UU11J.NB. we in our weakness need to prevail 1. Walking and Watching—The Ad- w i t h God before we seek to serve? vocate (22, 23). While He prayed He also watched. 2. Winds and Waters—The Adver- "Having loved His own He loved them sary (24). to the e n d " (Jno. 13:1). 3. Wonder and Word—The Advent Separated bodily, He is with them in (25-27). spirit. His eye is upon them. He sees 4. Welcome and Worship—The Apo- the 1'ttle boat battling with the billows calypse (32, 33). and He prays (Heb. 7:25). The feeding of the five thousand was C 2 -) WINDS AND WAVES. "Tospecl followed by a determined effort to force with the waves—the wind was Christ to be King. In this effort the contrary." diseiples no doubt concurred. " In the world ye shall have tribula- Satan had in the beginning sought to t i o n" (Jno. 16:33). What a strong accomplish this end but had failed contrast between the pictures of the (Luke 4:1-13). The Lord resisted him e a , m Christ in prayer and the dis- as He now resisted the people who were tressed disciples in service. What a but tools of Satan. He would not be battle they are having with the ele- King before God's appointed time and ™ents. in God's appointed way. The powers of nature seem to be (1) WAITING- AND WATCHING a f a i . n s : them. It is night and the strug- Z n Z t ^ 0 a — r s * M- XSE^ z r zz apart to pray. b o at a n d w ; t h i c a m distance (Matt He was forced to use authority with 8-'23-251 Now o™ „i ^ the diseiples to compel them to precede I ¿ r t o » o f \ " Him to Bethsaida (Mark 6:45), and L^he Z T L V** * t m g ' then dismiss the multitudes. He Him- o / d a t o e , s 7 B e h f l ?t »1! P ° W " 8 " 5 * 2 ? & fr* f T P r a y 6 r w f hand of the Primie of t ^ Z V T i ^ He has fed the people; now He must air seekins- to Wa lr +j,«> E i minister to His own soul. Grievous s r o ^ t h e d i s L l es Hp cnnfi ? A *i trials are before Him and His flock, the ^ictorv over ihp M flat » S u That very night they are to be sorely . L ks to ^ v e r ^ w e r ' l hf men'wTo'fol 0 tempted and on the morrow many low Him would desert Him. It is a time for it i s » time of danger. Just a few prayer, and turning His back upon the hours before t f a , scene of His triumph He ascends the u ^ ^ thefr high pTsitfon'lnd Z S wUh Go e d ° ° k l n g ^ 8 6a a n d " a n d l ° ° l e A { o r immediate Jettmg °°Wait on the Lo r d" (Psa. 27:14). _ Sunday June 5 1910. flict sohtude and prayer What emphasis sent them away? Had He forgotten we must put upon this matter of pri- them? How are they to L c o u ft for vate prayer. These days of intense liv- these things? Yesterday they had said ing make seclusion for the soul abso- "We can never doubt again " Now lutely necessary We need to be solic- they wonder if they c a n ^ v er believe itous for solitude in order that God again. Poor, weak, failinghnmanitv may gird us with power. If He needed (3) WONDEB AND WOED ' ' I t is to pray, how much more do we? If He a Spirit " " I t is I spent the night in prayer, must not we "Wi th God 'all things are possible " have seasons of prayer? If He must " The eye of the Lofd are % o n t h e ^ ^ndow you S a K / ' f with power Jesus spent the night in it is a time of doubt. Why had He
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