Bunyan's Holy War (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 6.
After the brawling that ended Chapter 5, Lord Understanding and Mr Conscience are locked up by Diabolus.
After further appeals to Mansoul, Shaddai's Captains decide to send for reinforcements from Shaddai himself.
The petition is heard and the decision is made to send Emmanuel, the King's son, to conquer Mansoul.
Emmanuel arrives, signals his intent to Mansoul and then finishes the chapter with a lengthy speech to the town that is ignored.
I loved the way Emmanuel intercepts the petition from the Captians to Shaddai and adjusts it to make it better: 'When this petition was come to the palace of the King, who should it be delivered to but to the King's Son? So he took it and read it, and because the contents of it pleased him well, he mended, and also in some things added to the petition himself. So, after he had made such amendments and additions as he thought convenient, with his own hand, he carried it in to the King; to whom, when he had with obeisance delivered it, he put on authority, and spake to it himself.'
So reassuring to know that all the foolish things I say in prayer are filtered out by Christ. Then as he intercedes on my behalf my prayers become pleasing and acceptable before God.
Read Chapter 7.
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