Prayer is as powerful as God who answers it. Do we realize that there is nothing the devil dreads so much as prayer? His great concern is to keep us from praying. He loves to see us “up to our eyes” in work provided we do not pray. He does not fear because we are eager and earnest Bible students – provided we are little in prayer.
Someone has wisely said, “Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” All this is so familiar to us, but do we really pray? If not, then failure must dog our footsteps, whatever signs of apparent success there may be.
Let us never forget that the greatest thing we can do for God or for man is to pray. For we can accomplish far more by our prayers than by our work. Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything that God can do! When we pray God works. All fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer – of the worker’s prayers, or of those who are holding up holy hands on his behalf. We know how to pray, but do we actually pray or play?
Many Christians today would rather sing, play games, chat, and surf the internet than pray. Oh! What a great cause of powerlessness among believers.
It would seem an undoubted fact that with God’s saints in all ages nights of prayer with God have been followed by days of power with men.
From: www.heraldofhiscoming.org July/August 2023