Going to Jesus

Gospel Tracts

 Select a tract to read:

• Tracts 1-50

  1. How I Received the Holy Ghost 2. Jesus Is Coming Again 3. You Must Be Born Again 4. Stir Up the Gift of God 5. The World’s Most Dreaded Hour 6. What is Salvation? 7. Stand Still in Jordan 9. Grieved Hearts 10. The Second Death 11. The Father and the Son 12. Suffering and the Saints 13. Cancer Conquered 14. The Church? 15. How Shall They Preach, Except They Be Sent? 16. Have You Received the Holy Ghost Since You Believed? 17. Patience 18. Alone With God 19. Tithes and Offerings 20. Prayer 21. The True Sabbath 22. The Besetting Sin 23. The Cry of the Righteous 24. What Will the Harvest Be? 25. Marriage and Divorce 26. Taking the Name of the Lord 27. The Keys of the Kingdom 28. Works 29. Politics and Believers 30. Unequally Yoked in Marriage 31. Coming Out of Babylon 32. The Forgiven Woman 33. The New Earth 34. The Sin of Silence 35. Freedom 36. Gods of the Gentiles 37. Why Some Are Not Healed 38. The Seven Pillars 39. Life, More Abundantly 40. Fear 41. The Comforter’s Testimony 42. This is My Friend 43. Conversion 44. The Time Is Drawing Near? 45. Songs in the Night 46. The Master’s Net 47. Trials are Opportunities 48. Receiving the Messenger 49. Seven Messages to the Seven Pastors 50. Keep Yourself Pure

• Tracts 51-100

  51. The New Birth 52. John the Baptist and Jesus 53. Denying Jesus 54. Bruised Reeds 56. The Wise and the Foolish 57. Holiness 58. Is Jesus God? 59. Christ or Christianity 60. Have Faith In God 61. Worthy to Suffer 63. Four Kinds of Soil 64. Communion 65. The Fullness of Time 66. Baptism 68. No Room 69. Crucified With Christ 70. Homosexuality and the Bible 71. The Kingdom of God 72. The Gospel of Christ 74. Perseverance 75. The Resurrection 76. Salvation 77. Sanctification 78. New Commandments 79. The Sacrifice of Christ 81. The Sound of the Spirit 82. The Wrath of God 84. God’s Compass 85. Perfection 86. The Abomination of Desolation 87. Antichrist 88. The Way of Grace 90. Relationships 91. The Vineyard of God 93. Subdued 94. The Spirit of Christ 95. The Blood of Christ 96. Spirit of a Serpent, Spirit of a Dove 97. Gluttony 98. The Lost Lamb 99. Scripture Burners 100. Bleating and Lowing

 

This is the promise of Christ to all who believe, and we know that our Lord’s promises were in perfect accord with the will of the Father.

Perhaps the greatest danger confronting us today is the lack of sufficient time spent in prayer.  We are rushing to and fro, trying to organize something or attempting to meet deadlines, and there seems to be no time left to step aside and commune with God. Most of us seek God in much service, but at the same time, I am afraid that too many of us are neglecting our greatest source of strength: communion with God. When one realizes the value of prayer, he will let many so-called important things go undone just to have more time to talk with God.

Those who accomplish righteousness in the earth are those who take time to pray. They do not have time, but they take it anyway. Yes, they take time from important things, but things less important than prayer. Jesus was always being sought out by the yearning masses; yet, he always made time to withdraw from the suffering multitudes to commune with his Father. At times, he prayed prior to healing the people. Other times, he prayed afterward. He was consistent, however, with what he taught regarding the need to pray always and not be discouraged. And in following Jesus’ example, who “offered, with strong crying and tears, both prayers and supplications to the One that was able to save him from death,” we come to understand that one does not become strong in the Lord by praying but a few minutes a day. It takes hours, even days, of submission in prayer before one reaches the height of the prayer life. Jesus often found it necessary to continue all night in prayer.

When we pray, we recognize a divine law, for through prayer, God releases power to us that can meet the limits of human needs and experience. Hezekiah, you recall, was deathly ill, and, as with us, he wanted to live. Weeping, he prayed that more years would be added to his life, and God answered by giving him fifteen more years to live. May God help us to pray, not necessarily for more years to be added to our life, but that more life will be added to our years.  Jesus promised such life to his followers. “I am come”, he said, “that they might have life, and have it abundantly.” This life is obtained chiefly through prayer.  Knowing prayer’s potential benefits, and seeing the world plunging into ever-increasing darkness, the wise are praying more and more earnestly than ever. Practically every nation is sharpening its sword, and only God can save us. Oh, how people everywhere need to pray!

“In the Name of”

Before the Son of God came, Israelites often approached God in the name of Old Testament worthies such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But now, praise God, we may approach Him with the name that stands above all others – the name of His Son Jesus, our Savior.  “The name of Jesus is so sweet,” exhorts one of our well-known hymns, and is it not fitting that we should come to the Father’s throne with Jesus’ name on our lips – not as a ceremonial form but as a reminder to ourselves of our debt to him whom the Father chose to be the “propitiation for our sins”?

Prayer for Help

Prayer should be the most delightful experience in the believer’s life. Something is out of order when it isn’t. Asking for something is only part of the meaning of prayer. Real prayer is heartfelt communication and association with God. A child of God who loves his Father will not stop communing with Him just because he has no urgent need. God is our Father, and He is always pleased to see His children at His footstool in prayer.

Of course, there is the prayer which comes of necessity, and such prayers are encouraged by the Lord, for He said, “Call on me in the day of trouble! I will deliver you, and you will glorify me” (Ps. 50:15). Apparently, there is no prayer that touches God more than the one we humbly offer in the time of our deepest sorrow and grief. Our heaviest heartaches seem to reach the Father more quickly.  Jesus cried out to God in his agony on the cross, even though, for our sakes, he refused deliverance from the torment. Indeed, he showed us how we ought to persist in prayer for others by praying for the very ones who were torturing him. He was the perfect example of his preaching, for he had taught his followers, “Love your enemies; bless those who curse you; do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you” (Mt. 5:44). Yet, as he showed us, love without prayer is not sufficient. It takes both to please God.

You recall the sadness of the disciples when James was beheaded. Peter was in prison awaiting the same fate. Humanly speaking, there was no way out for Peter; however, “earnest prayer for him was made to God,” and God answered. And just as the prayers of those early saints opened the iron gate for Peter, so will fervent prayer today remove the iron curtain of sin and lead God’s people out, into the liberty of Christ. Let us then avail ourselves of this unfailing weapon and trust in the One who placed it in our hand.

“You Said”

When Jacob’s brother Esau (who apparently had never forgiven Jacob for stealing his birthright) was on his way with four hundred men to meet Jacob, frightened Jacob resorted to the weapon of prayer. “Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, because I fear him, lest he come and attack me.  For you said, ‘I will surely do good to you and will make your seed like the sand of the sea’” (Gen. 32:11–12). Notice, please, how Jacob reminded God of His promise to him twenty years earlier.  Was God pleased with this? Yes.  “For you said” had a powerful effect in the ears of God, for “Esau ran to meet [Jacob], and he hugged him, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.”

The angel said to Jacob, “You have contended with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Yes, prayer won Esau, for he was conquered while Jacob was alone with God, upon his knees. Prayer closed the lions’ mouths for Daniel. And when wicked Haman sought to destroy the Jews, Queen Esther fasted and prayed three days, and God heard her and delivered His people. Moses prayed in earnest when his brother Aaron built a golden calf at Mount Sinai.  How God’s anger was kindled against the children of Israel for worshipping it! “Leave me alone,” God said to Moses, “and I will utterly destroy them and make of you a great nation” (Ex. 32:10). Moses did not want Israel destroyed, even though by this would his own name be honored. Moses, like Jacob, reminded God of His promise: “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants,” pleaded Moses, “to whom you swore by your own self, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed’” (Ex. 32:13). What were the results of this prayer? “The Lord turned from the evil which He had threatened to do to His people.” Clearly, God delights to hear His people plead His promises.  Yes, to remind the Lord of His promises, as Jacob, Moses, and other great souls so often did, is acceptable with Him, provided we are contrite as they were.

God always answers sincere prayers to know Him and to serve Him more acceptably, even though the form His answers take may confuse those who are lacking in discernment. Listen to this girl’s prayer (author unknown):

Two artists were asked that each paint his own idea of peace. One painted a scene of calmness, showing a green pasture in which a small herd of sheep was grazing contentedly, and everything spoke of tranquility and peace. The other artist portrayed a raging waterfall as it violently rushed to the depths below. On a projecting ridge of rock under the waterfall and by the side of its leaping and foaming stream, he painted a little bird sitting undisturbed and unafraid on its nest. What a splendid concept of peace in the midst of the strife, conflict, and harassing confusion of this age! What a perfect picture of every believer who has taken his or her burdens to God in prayer and is resting in the confidence of faith.

At the throne of God, many blessings are waiting for us, blessings of faith, peace, healing, and eternal life. Let us go to Him in prayer and be blessed.