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Prayer Moves Heaven, March 9
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7
.
Why is it that we do not receive more from Him who is the source of
light and power? We expect too little....
We do not value as we should the power and efficacy of prayer. “The
Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray
for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered” (
Romans 8:26
). God desires us to
come to Him in prayer, that He may enlighten our minds. He alone can
give clear conceptions of truth. He alone can soften and subdue the heart.
He can quicken the understanding to discern truth from error. He can
establish the wavering mind and give it a knowledge and a faith that will
endure the test. Pray, then; pray without ceasing. The Lord who heard
Daniel’s prayer will hear yours if you will approach Him as Daniel did.
Let us live in close communion with God. The joy of the Chris-
tian arises from a sense of God’s love and care for His children and the
assurance that He will not leave them alone in their weakness.
We need to know how to pray. It is not tame, spiritless prayers that
take hold of the divine attributes. Prayer is heard by God when it comes
from a heart broken by a sense of unworthiness. Prayer was instituted for
our comfort and salvation, that through faith and hope we may lay hold
on the rich promises of God. Prayer is the expression of the desires of a
soul hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
Prayer is a heaven-ordained means of success. Appeals, petitions,
entreaties, between man and man, move men and act a part in controlling
the affairs of nations. But prayer moves heaven. That power alone that
comes in answer to prayer will make men wise in the wisdom of heaven
and enable them to work in the unity of the Spirit, joined together by the
bonds of peace. Prayer, faith, confidence in God, bring a divine power
that sets human calculations at their real worth—nothingness.... He who
places himself where God can enlighten him, advances, as it were, from
the partial obscurity of dawn to the full radiance of noonday.
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