NOTES
1.The Table Talk of Martin Luther, ed. Thomas S. Kepler (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), 202.
2. P. T. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1916), 10.
3. Alexander Whyte, Teach Us To Pray (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922), 15. Whyte uses the word men generically to include all believers, both men and women.
4. Ibid., 51.
5. C. H. Spurgeon, Autobiography: The Early Years (London: Banner of Truth Trust, n.d.), 390. The reference is to Rev. 1:13–16.
6. The Lord’s Prayer is also called the Disciples’ Prayer and the Our Father (Pater Noster in Latin). The benediction (“For yours is the kingdom”) is not found in leading ancient manuscripts.
7. Some students see seven requests. However, the conjunction but in v. 13 probably indicates that “lead us not” and “deliver us” are part of the same request, to overcome the enemy, Satan.
8. John W. Doberstein, ed., Minister’s Prayer Book (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1959), 445–46.
9. Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology, one volume edition (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987), 313–14.
10. Our Lord’s promise in Luke 11:9–10 covers God’s wealth (“ask”), God’s will (“seek”), and God’s work (“knock”). In Scripture, an open door is a metaphor for an opportunity to serve God (1 Cor. 16:8–9).
11. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Direction Books, 1961), 53.
12. See Carl B. Hoch Jr., All Things New (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995), 248–50; and the trilogy by Gene Getz, Building Up One Another, Loving One Another, and Encouraging One Another (Colorado Springs: Victor, 2002).
13. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer, 114.
14. G. Campbell Morgan, The Teaching of Christ (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1913), 204.
15. Ibid., 219.
16. Robert Law, The Tests of Life (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1909), 304.
17. Note the requests in these references: Rom. 15:30–33; 2 Cor. 1:8–11; Eph. 6:18–19; Phil. 1:19; Col. 4:3; 1 Thess. 5:25; 2 Thess. 3:1; Philem. 22.
18. Law, The Tests of Life, 304.
19. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer, 48–49.
20. Ibid., 51.
21. Tony Castle, ed., The New Book of Christian Quotations (New York: Crossroads, 1984), 191.
22. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer, 56.
23. It’s not likely that Jesus was speaking in John 6 about the Lord’s Supper or Eucharist. He hadn’t even discussed that subject with his own disciples, so why would he speak of it to a crowd of unbelieving Jews? John 6:63 makes it clear that it is the Spirit who gives life, not material bread.
24. “Day by Day and with Each Passing Moment” by Carolina Sandell Berg, translated by Andrew L. Skoog.
25. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1988), vol. 35, 217.
26. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (London: Independent Press, 1953), 28.
27. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer, 58.
28. See my book 50 People Every Christian Should Know (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008). This is a new and expanded edition of my previous book Living with the Giants.
29. Charles H. Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries (London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1969), 1.
30. For a detailed exposition of the four appearances of the devil in the Old Testament, see my book The Strategy of Satan (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 1979).
31. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1980), vol. 26, 224.
32. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: Harper, 1961), 45.
33. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt, 1960), 137.
34. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1960), 104.