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PRAYER POWER
Christ desires His people in all time to realize how little dependence can
be placed on earthly rulers or judges in the day of adversity. Often the elect people of God have to stand before men in official positions, who do
not make the word of God their guide and counselor, but who follow their own unconsecrated, undisciplined impulses.
While the world is progressing in wickedness, none of us need flatter
ourselves that we shall have no difficulties. But it is these very difficulties that bring us into the audience chamber of the Most High.
The Lord invites us to present to Him our perplexities and necessities,
and our need of divine help. By our importunate prayers we give evidence of our strong confidence in God. The sense of our need leads us to pray earnestly.
If we surrender our lives to His service, we can never be placed in a position for which God has not made a provision.
Isaiah 26:3 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed
on thee: because he trusteth in thee. I will be honored before those who are watching for your failure. They shall see My word triumph gloriously.
Let all who are afflicted or unjustly used, cry to God. Turn away from
those whose hearts are as steel, and make your requests known to your Maker. Never is one repulsed who comes to Him with a contrite heart.
Not one sincere prayer is lost. Amid the anthems of the celestial choir, God hears the cries of the weakest human being. We pour out our heart's
desire in our closets, we breathe a prayer as we walk by the way, and our words reach the throne of the Monarch of the universe. They may be
inaudible to any human ear, but they cannot die away into silence, nor can they be lost through the activities of business that are going on.
Nothing can drown the soul's desire. It rises above the din of the streets, above the confusion of the multitude, to the heavenly courts. It is God to whom we are speaking, and our prayer is heard.
The Lord permits trails in order that we may be cleansed from earthiness,
from selfishness, from harsh, un-Christlike traits of character. Often we enter the furnace of trail with our souls darkened with selfishness; but if
patient under the crucial test, we shall come forth reflecting the divine character purer, holier, and happier.
There is no danger that the Lord will neglect the prayers of His people.
The danger is that in temptation and trail they will become discouraged, and fail to persevere in prayer.
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