But there are others, I am sure, whose hearts are gearning for something better than what they have known. They long, oh, so earnestly, to know Jesus Christ their loving Redeemer, in the power of the Holy Spirit which He has promised, to serve Him with that love which keeps His commandments and always abides in His love.They would fain have it discovered to them what is the secret cause of their feebleness; of their unbelief; of their impotence to influence others around them; of their failure in every attempt to live the prayer life in the joy of daily personal fellowship with Christ Jesus.It is for such that this book has been written, with the one desire of pointing out the path that leads to the full knowledge and love of God. The chief thoughts are very simple, and yet very large. The Almighty God, to Whom nothing is too hard, offers with His omnipotent power to work in them every day what they need for a life such as He would have them live.This Almighty and most loving God claims justly that they shall surrender their whole being, all their life and time and strength every day to His keeping, and to the fulfilment of His commands.And this Almighty God is to be waited on every day with a childlike confidence that He will reveal Himself as God to work out in them all the purpose of His will. Everything depends on giving the Almighty God His place, on yielding our whole life to His service and His working in us; and then the conscious assurance that His mighty power will work in us what is to us impossible. May every reader be brought under the deep conviction of how such an Almighty God, with His wonderful promises, deserves and claims to be met with a strong, whole-hearted faith in every approach to Him. He is worthy of it; and nothing less will suffice for our daily life but a faith which takes possession of and masters our whole being, and ever keeps us waiting on God, entirely at His disposal. The whole God offers Himself to us. Has He not a right, is it not in the very nature of things an absolute necessity, that the whole man, through every moment of his life, be yielded up to this blessed and most glorious God?Just one thought more. In our study of what God wants His people to be, and undertakes to make them, let us beware of only thinking of ourselves. Let each discovery of God's wonderful grace lead us to think of the Church of Churst around us, and how little God's children realize what their wonderful privilege in Christ is It is as an increasing number of those who are seeking to follow the Lord fully, take up the burden of their brethren around them, and plead with God for them, that we can expect God to visit His people with the revival of the abundant life in Christ, which will make her the power in the world she is meant to be. Let the low state of the Church and of the great majority of believers, and even of many in the ministry or the work of God, be a burden that we bear as God's intercessors might and day before Him. We shall find that as we forget ourselves and plead for what appears impossible, we shall enter more deeply into the fellowship of Christ and His sufferings, as well as of Christ and His victory. Such prayer will indeed be fruitful for our own souls and for the world around us.