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THE

ACHIEVEMENTS OF PRAYER.

THE PRAYER OF ABRAHAM.

GENESIS XV. 1-3.

AND the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.

And Abraham said, Lord God, what wilt. thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abraham said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

GENESIS XV. 4—6.

This shall not be thine heir: but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward

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heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.

THE PRAYER OF ABRAHAM.

GENESIS XVii. 18.

And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

GENESIS XVii. 20.

As for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac.

ABRAHAM'S

INTERCESSION

SODOM.

FOR

GENESIS Xviii. 23-25.

And Abraham stood before the Lord :

and Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt

thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

GENESIS Xviii. 26.

If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

GENESIS Xviii. 27, 28.

And Abraham said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

GENESIS Xviii. 28.

If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

GENESIS Xviii. 29.

And Abraham spake yet again, Peradventure there shall be forty found there.

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

GENESIS Xviii. 29.

I will not do it for forty's sake.

GENESIS Xviii. 30.

And Abraham said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

GENESIS Xviii. 30.

I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

GENESIS XViii. 31.

And Abraham said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.

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