Magnificent Prayer #119
Magnificent Prayer #119
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
James 5:16
When a burden comes upon your soul, or the Spirit leads you out along any line in prayer, take time, plenty of time to get alone with God in prayer. Stay there. Don’t get up. Don’t be in a hurry. Don’t get nervous. Don’t look at your watch. Never stop until you get the mind of God. It is dangerous to your own soul; it is destructive to God’s cause committed to you. It will cause you to lose the blessed spirit of prayer, when He leads you out, and you fail to follow; fail to stay upon your knees; fail to pray clear through. God would not burden your heart, God would not make you hungry, lead you out, lead you to wrestle, to agonize, to fast and pray, unless He meant to answer. It’s proof of the fact when the burden continues, and the Spirit continues to lead you out, that there’s an answer, and God wants you to pray clear through.
W. J. HARNEY
Pray About It: If you’re in a hurry to pray, better postpone your prayer time. You can’t get the mind of God when you’re constantly looking at your watch or mentally organizing your day as you pray.
That’s why the most productive times of prayer are scheduled times of prayer, when you set aside a specific time in which to do nothing but meet with God. Then He can give you a burden to “pray clear through.”
Take your time in prayer today. Get your answer from God.
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else—time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential.
OSWALD J. SMITH
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