Lance told us yesterday that he had come to the United States to teach you all to speak English. And I certainly need some lessons when I listen to our brother. Some of the words, I do not even understand. I do not know—how about you?
But do not worry, Lance. I got the message. And I am so happy about that, because the Lord can, by His Spirit, really speak to our hearts, even if we cannot express ourselves as fluently as we would like to in different tongues.
I have always been a believer in tongues and interpretation. So I do believe that the Lord will enable us all to understand what He wants us to understand.
I would like tonight to open this little series on prayer by speaking on prayer and the work of God—prayer in relation to God’s work. I think we could turn again to James 5 for an opening, and read again from verse 16.
Therefore confess your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
So let us turn to the Lord in prayer.
Lord, we know that it is so often that we hear about prayer, and it is so often that we speak about prayer. Lord, we know so many things about prayer. It is a subject spoken of very often, but practiced so little in our lives.
So, Lord, we turn to You for mercy—not only to have some interesting things to share on the matter of prayer, but really, Lord, to be stirred up in our innermost being, to be called by the Lord into a prayer life.
Lord, we need You. We know that we can never learn to pray until we get started. Father, we just pray that You will penetrate our hearts tonight, stir up our hearts, even if it is disturbing some of our peace.
Lord, we pray that when we have been through this week, many of us may indeed have committed ourselves to a prayer life for Your sake. In Jesus’ name, amen.
“The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” The Amplified New Testament puts it like this: “The earnest prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available—dynamic in its working.”
Prayer makes tremendous power available, dynamic in its working. So we see that our work needs prayer if we are going to see God’s power in it.
It was Corrie ten Boom who said, I think it was three years ago at a youth convention to a huge crowd of young people, “If you want to work for God, do not hesitate to establish a committee.” We have so many committees—at least where I live—committees for one thing and committees for another thing.
But then she went on: “If you want to work with the Lord, do not hesitate to form a prayer group.” I think this was very well said, and very true indeed.
If we want to do God’s work, there is no other way than to give ourselves to prayer. God’s work will never be done unless there is prayer. He has chosen that way for His work to be done.
That is why the Lord Jesus taught His disciples that they ought to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” because it is through prayer that the kingdom will come.
If you noticed this morning in Psalm 2, when it speaks about the nations being the inheritance of God’s anointed, God’s Messiah, it says, “Ask of Me, and I will give Thee the nations for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.”
God’s work can never be done in any other way than through prayer. He has chosen prayer as His method of working.
I knew a very remarkable man of prayer in Denmark. In the last part of his life, he became a missionary to Israel. He often came into my parents’ home, and he told me once what an experience he had had in his prayer life.
He used to get up at five o’clock in the morning to give himself to prayer. But sometimes it was a little too hard for him to get out of bed. I can understand him very well indeed. We are of the same nature; we are just human beings.
So sometimes he would lie in his bed and think that he ought to get out of bed, but it was so wonderfully warm, and it was so cold in the room, and so on.
One morning, when he was lying in his bed and could not pull himself together to get out, suddenly he saw in his room many white beings. They were talking to one another, and one was saying to another, “Strange that we came here this morning. We used to be sent out, but nothing is happening today.”
Suddenly, this brother realized that the Lord had opened his eyes for a minute to see beyond the veil. These white beings were ministering angels, sent out to help those who are to inherit salvation, as Hebrews 1 tells us.
It took him no more than a couple of seconds. He was out of that bed and down on his knees, and he started to pray.
I do not know about the United States, but in Denmark we have such a high rate of unemployment—ten percent. Sometimes I have a feeling that there is a kind of unemployment rate in heaven too, because we are not given to prayer.
That is why the work of God is frustrated, and we are binding the hands of the Lord. He has bound Himself to do the work through prayer, and through prayer only. If there is nobody praying, do not go around under any illusion that everything is going to be fine. No.
We must give ourselves to prayer in order to see the work of the Lord accomplished in our lives individually, in our fellowships, in our countries, and throughout the whole world.
God works through prayer. When somebody is praying, God is there to work out His will on earth and to bring the kingdom about. But if there is no prayer, we bind the hands of the Lord.
“The earnest prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available, dynamic in its working.” Why are we so powerless? Why is our work often so powerless? Because there is such a tremendous lack of prayer.
We are not going to get that power in any other way. Only as we learn to give ourselves to prayer, and go on praying like Elijah—he prayed, and he prayed again. He was, in other words, a man of prayer.
Then we will see tremendous power available in the work, in our situation, in our lives, and in our families.
Oh, there are so many situations that we cannot cope with—hopeless and impossible situations. I know in my own family it came to a point where my wife and I were just desperate about our older son.
In his teenage years, he became really hooked on hard rock and beat music. It took his heart. He went to every concert, bought enormous numbers of records, and was taken up with it. I spoke to him, tried to discipline him, and tried to explain to him, but nothing worked. My wife did the same thing.
At last we said, “We cannot do anything but give ourselves to prayer.” My wife and I began to pray, and we prayed for our son. It took a little more than half a year.
Then he went to a youth camp, and at that youth camp the Lord met him wonderfully. When he came home, I saw a different look in his face. Something had happened.
I said to my wife, “It seems to me as if a tremendous power has come upon that young man.” Then he said to me, “Father, I do not think that I can keep all these records any longer. What are we going to do about it?”
“Well,” I said, “we could try at least to sell those that are new, so that you can get a little of your money back. We have some secondhand shops.”
I shall never forget the day that I took this huge pile of records, got into the car with my son, and drove into the center of Copenhagen. We were able to sell four or five of them, and there we stood still with a big pile.
I will never forget it. I looked at my son and said, “Now, come on.” We went through a gate into a yard where there was a big rubbish bin. I opened the lid, looked at my son, and said, “Now, what are we going to do?”
He looked at me and said, “Father, throw them down.” And down they went—all of them. From that moment, he was delivered, totally delivered.
But it was prayer that made it possible for God to work in that young man. The earnest prayer of a righteous man made tremendous power available.
If you turn to Revelation 8, you will see how the prayers of the saints are essential to the work of God—how God is counting on the prayers, depending on the prayers, and using the prayers of the saints in a wonderful way.
And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
And the angel taketh the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Is that not fantastic? God is preserving the prayers of the saints. I used to say that you can never find anywhere in the Book that He is keeping the sermons—not even the best sermons of the best brethren.
God does not keep a record of sermons, but He is keeping the prayers, preserving the prayers of every little feeble saint. The marvelous thing is that however feeble, weak, and inadequate that prayer may be, God is able to complete it through the wonderful incense from the altar.
That speaks of the power of resurrection through our Lord Jesus Christ, which makes even our prayers complete in the eyes of God, acceptable in the eyes of God.
When these prayers come up before God, something is happening. Tremendous power is being made available, and it comes down on earth like fire, with thunderings and lightnings and even earthquakes.
God is working through prayer, and it is a wonderful encouragement that He is taking every little prayer. He does not forget any prayer we have prayed, even the prayers we prayed way back in our lives. He remembers them, collects them, completes them, and uses them to make tremendous power available.
Oh, that we would really understand it—but much more than understand it, that because we do understand it, we would get down to the work and pray.
I reckon it to be one of the greatest privileges in my life that I met two elderly sisters—real sisters of prayer.
One of these sisters is now ninety-three years old. She went out to China in 1910 as a missionary and stayed on until 1936. There she became familiar with the work of Brother Watchman Nee, and she received the vision of the church in her heart.
One day, as she prayed, the Lord showed her a vision. She saw a map of Denmark, and she saw high walls between the different groups of the Lord’s people in that country.
The Spirit said to her, “Go home to Denmark and start praying that the walls may be broken down, and that My people will be united.”
She went home in 1936 and came together with two other sisters. One has since gone to be with the Lord. They have prayed ever since, giving themselves to prayer.
One day in 1964, I went to hear a brother give a Bible study in a hall in the center of Copenhagen, a brother whom you may know called Paul Madsen.
As I walked out after the Bible study, this old sister came to me. She took my hand, looked into my eyes, and said, “From now on, I am going to pray for you every day.”
From that day on, something began to happen in my life. I could not go the way that I wanted to go. Honestly, I know it is the Lord who has worked. It is neither me nor even that sister; it is the Lord.
But I can say that I would not stand here today if it were not for those prayers. My life is a living testimony of what prayer is able to do in a human being’s life.
Many times I did not want to be in that group after all. I did not like what this man said. Many times later on I tried to get away from it, because I was brought up in a Pentecostal church, so I liked the Pentecostals best.
But somehow a tremendous power began to operate. Every time I was about to leave the track, something happened to keep me, to humble me, to bring me down flat on my face before the Lord.
I know today that it was God’s power working through the prayers of His saints. Oh, brothers and sisters, the work of God and prayer! If we understood it, and if we gave ourselves to it, how the Lord would be able really to work through us and in the midst of us.
Will you turn to Mark 6? There is an event in the life of the Lord and His disciples that has become a striking illustration to me in the matter of prayer and the work of God. Mark 6:45.
And straightway He constrained His disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before Him unto the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself sendeth the multitude away.
And after He had taken leave of them, He departed into the mountain to pray.
And when even was come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and He alone on the land.
And seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them, about the fourth watch of the night He cometh unto them, walking on the sea; and He would have passed by them.
But they, when they saw Him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out: for they all saw Him, and were troubled.
But He straightway spake with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
And He went up unto them into the boat; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves.
I do not know what the Lord may have said to you through this little event. But to me, it has been an illustration of the difference between the way that the Lord walked and the way that the disciples walked.
You can either row in the boat, or you can—can I put it this way?—learn to walk on the sea. There are two different ways here.
The Lord Jesus went to the mountain to pray. As He prayed, tremendous power became available. It was so tremendous that He was able to walk right across that sea. He was able to go through the wind, the storm, and the big waves.
Although He started much later than the disciples, He was able to pass them by. Those who really know how to pray will be the first ones to reach the goal, although they begin to work much later than others.
It is remarkable how, whenever the Lord was on this little lake of Galilee, there was always a big storm and big waves. I do not think it was because the Lord was particularly fond of sailing in stormy weather. It was because the enemy tried to stop Him.
If you go to Mark 4, you see that on one occasion the Lord was going to meet a possessed man on the other side—a man possessed with demons, who needed deliverance. That poor man was bound with fetters of iron and was so strong through that evil spirit that he was able to tear them apart.
The Lord had a heart for that man, and He was going to deliver him. The enemy tried to resist Him and oppose Him.
Whenever we are in the work of God, we must expect that the enemy will try to cut us off, to raise the storm, and to hinder us. If we have no hindrance at all, and if we think that everything is beautiful and wonderful and lovely, it is a big question whether we are in God’s work.
When we are in God’s work, heading for His purposes and obeying His voice, surely the enemy will somehow try to cut us off, raise the storm, and make the circumstances almost impossible, in order that we lose courage and give up.
Now we see here that those who pray will be able to go right through every opponent, every opposition that the enemy would put before us, and any mountain he may lay in our path.
If we are like the Lord Jesus, if we are walking the way He walked, if we are praying people, we will make tremendous power available, and we will be able to walk on the sea, however furious the storm may be.
We will experience resurrection power that will lift us up. Even if the storm is still there—sometimes the Lord stills the storm, but here He walks right over it—even if the opposition remains, it will never be able to hinder us from coming to the place that the Lord has appointed for us.
There is no power from the enemy that will be able, in the long run, to hinder those who know how to pray, because as we pray, resurrection power becomes available—tremendous power.
Now look at these disciples. They were in the boat, struggling with the oars. I see this little boat and this little group of disciples as the church sometimes. We get in the boat and try to see whether we can manage to get over to the other side. We struggle against the wind.
If you notice the time of this journey, you will see that the disciples went into the boat in the evening, perhaps about six o’clock. By the fourth watch, when the Lord met them on the sea, they had only come halfway. The fourth watch is between three and six in the morning.
That is to say, these poor disciples had been struggling in that boat for almost ten to twelve hours. In John, it says they had gone only three or four miles. What heavy work! And they were skilled fishermen. They knew how to do it.
But it speaks to me of how we struggle to work for God—how we struggle with the oars and use our muscles to get anywhere in the work of God. There is another way: the way that the Lord Jesus went.
He gave Himself to prayer. The power of God was in Him, through Him, and surrounding Him, and He went right through in the will of God. The enemy could never, ever hinder Him.
The earnest prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available.
I just want to go to John 6 and let you see something very interesting. There is a detail in John 6, in the same story about the boat and the disciples, in verse 21.
When therefore they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the boat: and they were afraid.
But He saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
They were willing therefore to receive Him into the boat: and straightway the boat was at the land whither they were going.
Now, if you compare that with Mark, this seems to be a miracle. According to Mark, they were right in the midst of the sea, so they had perhaps another ten or twelve hours to go. But the moment the Lord came into that boat, the boat was there.
This is what prayer will do. Sometimes, when we get down to really pray, we are surprised to see that the answers are suddenly there. It is a miracle.
Answers to prayer are always miracles. What we need more than anything else is miracles among God’s people—not merely in ordinary things, but in the work of God: resurrection power available for God’s work to be accomplished in our midst.
In the Old Testament, we have a similar story about Elijah in 1 Kings 18. He was told that he should appear before King Ahab, and then the Lord would send rain over the earth.
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.
It is really strange. Elijah had already heard the sound of abundance of rain. That is to say, the Lord was going to answer. He was going to send the rain.
Would it not have been good if he had joined the company and had a big lunch? He had already heard that the rain would come, and the Lord had said that when he appeared before Ahab, He would bring rain upon the earth.
Elijah knew that anything God says, anything God promises, is not automatically fulfilled. It needs prayer to be fulfilled. Every promise needs prayer to be fulfilled.
So instead of joining the king for a big meal, he went up and began to pray. He prayed again, and again, and again, and again, until he saw the little cloud, not bigger than a man’s hand, coming up.
And he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man’s hand.
And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Make ready thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
The king must have had several good horses of the best kind—probably Arab horses, perhaps six or eight or even ten before his chariot. I am sure he had a big whip, and he was whipping those horses until they were sweating all over the place. There was tremendous speed on that chariot.
But look what happened:
And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Is that not amazing? Can you imagine this great chariot with all these horses and this king mercilessly whipping the horses to get home? Then this little prophet, with no chariot and no horses, was running—and outrunning him. He came first to his destination because the hand of the Lord came upon him.
This is what prayer will do. It speaks to us because chariots and horses in the Bible speak about the natural power of man in the work of God. Oh, how many horses and chariots we have in order to reach the place that the Lord has appointed for us.
But if we could come down to pray, the hand of the Lord would come upon us, and resurrection power—tremendous power—would become available. We would be there before any other.
What we need is really to learn to pray and pray through, so that the power of God may be available for us. I think of a few matters to close with in our work for God. For instance, evangelism.
We have heard that we shall go out into the world and preach the gospel, and it is true. But before we come to that commandment in Matthew 28, there is another commandment in Matthew 9 which comes before it, just as truly as Matthew 9 must come before Matthew 28.
And when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.
Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.
Did He say, “Go ye out into the world and preach the gospel”? No. He said, “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.” Is that not amazing? We have forgotten this commandment concerning mission and evangelism.
The first thing we ought to do about it is to pray. If we do not pray, we will get people out there who should never be there. There are people on the mission field who should never, ever have been there. They are only a problem for the work.
But what we need more than anything else today, I dare say, is prayer—prayer to get the gospel out into the world.
We do not need more money. We do not need, for that matter, a lot more literature, advertising, PTL Club, or whatever you can offer.
We do not even need new methods. We have had all the methods that we can think of. I have used them all in Copenhagen, one after another.
We do not even need gifted people with evangelistic gifts. We need prayer more than anything else if the gospel is going to be really preached in all the world today. It is prayer we need—someone who can pray.
When we were down in Jerusalem, we met a leader of Intercessors for South Africa. He told us that a young evangelist had come out from Zaire and down to South Africa.
In the beginning, he was a little critical of this work of intercessors for South Africa. He said, “Why do you use all that time praying instead of going and preaching the gospel?”
Then this African brother said, “Well, mind you, young man, if you and your coworkers had prayed more while you were in Zaire, you would not have been thrown out of that country, where you cannot go and work anymore.”
“We are praying today,” he said, “that South Africa may stay open, so that the work of the Lord can go on.” This young man was really impressed. He was an evangelist, but he became one of the foremost intercessors for South Africa.
I can never forget reading about D. L. Moody. He wanted to go to England to hear the great preachers—that is where all the great preachers came from. I think it was Spurgeon that he wanted to hear, if I am not wrong, though I do not remember exactly.
So he went from America to England to hear the great preachers. But someone in a church in the northern part of London heard about it and invited Moody to go there and hold meetings on Sunday. So he said yes.
On Sunday morning, he came to a church in northern London and was supposed to preach. But it was awful. Dr. Torrey, who tells the story, says that Moody was so depressed he could scarcely get the words out of his mouth. Everything was a failure. The message did not get through, and he was discouraged.
He said to the pastor, “Well, it is wrong. I am only here to listen to the great preachers. I should not have come here to preach. Please let me get away from the Sunday afternoon and evening meetings.”
But the pastor said, “No, no, you are advertised. You cannot leave. People are coming to listen tonight. You must preach.”
All right. Moody came back for the Sunday evening meeting and began to preach. Dr. Torrey says that when he began, suddenly something came into the room, and he preached the gospel with tremendous power.
When they came to the end of the meeting, Moody was so bold, being in the city of great preachers, that he was even able to draw in the net—to give an appeal. He gave an appeal in the church, and five hundred people stood on their feet to receive Christ.
When he saw that, he said, “Sit down again. I only meant those who really, sincerely wanted to become Christians.” Then he gave another appeal, and there they were on their feet—all five hundred.
Then he turned to the pastor and said, “Do you think they understand my American accent?” He would not believe it. Then he said, “You must give the appeal.”
The pastor gave the appeal, and five hundred people stood on their feet. Moody said, “I am not going to do anything about it.” He did not believe it could be true.
So he said to the pastor, “Tell them that if they really want to get saved, they are to come again tomorrow evening—Monday. It is the most terrible evening for gospel meetings in Europe. Come again tomorrow evening if you want to get saved. I will not be here, because I have to go to Ireland for other meetings.”
Afterwards he got a letter from that pastor. The pastor wrote, “More than five hundred came, and now there is a revival here. Please, Moody, come back.”
Moody came back, and there was a real breakthrough. When he came, Moody asked the pastor, “How can it be that we have had this breakthrough?”
“Oh,” the pastor said, “did you not know what was the secret? I will tell you. We had two sisters in this church. One is paralyzed and lies in her bed; she cannot move. Her sister is taking care of her.”
That Sunday morning, the sister went to the church meeting and came back to serve lunch to her paralyzed sister. Then she said, “Sister, do you know whom we had preaching in the church this morning?”
“No,” she said. She mentioned a few names, including the local pastor. Sometimes he was almost a guest in his own church, so it could have been a surprise if he preached the sermon.
But she said, “No, no, D. L. Moody.”
“You do not say that!” said the sister in bed. “You do not say! I have been praying every day for one year that God somehow would bring D. L. Moody to our church.”
Then she looked at the lunch and said, “Take it away, please. We are not going to eat for the rest of this day. It is prayer and fasting.”
Now do you see the difference between the Sunday morning meeting and the Sunday evening meeting? It was not Moody. It was not that great gifted evangelist alone. It was two feeble sisters knowing the power of prayer, and tremendous power became available in that church that night.
Oh, brothers and sisters, there is nothing too big, nothing too impossible, that could not happen if God’s people could come back to real prayer. We could take any area we would like to take.
When it comes to the sanctification of the saints, we have a wonderful word in 1 John 5:16.
If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for them that sin not unto death.
The first thing we should do if we see a problem is not to go immediately and correct it—not even if we see a brother or sister committing a sin that is not unto death. The first thing we should do is pray, ask, and God will give him or her life.
I remember how we had a problem with an old sister in our church. She came to one of the home gatherings, and she was the most talkative person I had ever met.
She talked from the beginning to the end without stopping. Nobody could interrupt her or get a word in. This was an open gathering, where they were supposed to share with one another, but she shared and nobody else did. She took all the time.
After a few meetings of that kind, the leading brother of the group came to me and said, “Johannes, you have got to speak to that sister.”
Well, I did not feel like doing that right away. I knew better. So I said, “Let us pray.” We went down on our knees and prayed for that dear sister.
They came to the next meeting, and it was all the same. The leading brother was back on the phone. He said, “It does not work. You have to go and say something to that old sister.”
I said, “Let us pray again.” So we prayed again.
The next Wednesday, when they had the home meeting, that old sister fell on the staircase and hurt her leg—not too badly, but she hurt her leg. The Lord was merciful.
She was brought to the hospital and confined there for several weeks. Then she called me. I did not have to go; she called me.
When I came to her, she was completely changed. She said, “Brother, do you know, while I have been lying here in my bed, I have just seen something. I believe I have been too dominating a person. I think I have really tried to dominate the others in the group to which I belong.”
In my heart I was saying, “God, I did not have to say it now.” And she was completely changed.
The power of prayer—that is the shortcut if we want to see people grow in the Lord. We just have to pray for them and pray for one another. We will see the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit really becoming reality in their lives.
Oh, we could say so much. I was in Sweden, and they told me that because the inflation rate was so high—seventeen to nineteen percent a year—money was not coming into the churches. All the pastors had been writing letters to their church members about the financial problems in the church, and so on and so forth.
I said to them, “Have you ever thought that you could come together and pray about it?”
Do you know George Müller? He prayed without telling anybody about his needs. Through sixty years, he prayed millions into the kingdom of God—and that was a century ago. If you take today’s inflation and apply it to that amount!
Prayer will make tremendous power available. Nothing really has ever happened without somebody praying.
Let me close by reminding you about the glorious revival in Northern Ireland in the last century, so tremendous in power that restaurants, bars, and theatres were emptied of people.
It all began because four men decided to come together and pray every Saturday night. As they started to pray, they said to one another, “We could pray the whole night, for that matter. Let us pray. Let us go on and pray.”
So they prayed every Saturday evening and night for half a year. Then they looked at one another and said, “Let us go out and see if something is happening.”
They were ordinary people, skilled craftsmen, not preachers or religious professionals. They began to share, but nothing happened. They looked at one another and said, “Well, let us go back and pray.”
So they prayed for another six months. Then the power of the Holy Spirit fell upon that area with tremendous power to save tens of thousands of souls.
Oh, dear brothers and sisters, I want to encourage you. What a possibility we have. What a way the Lord has given us.
We can walk on the sea. We can have tremendous power in our work, if only we know how to pray and give ourselves to prayer.
As I said to begin with, you know all these things. This is nothing new. I have no hidden, mystical, deep, exceptional teaching for you on prayer this week.
My whole burden is that our hearts may be deeply stirred, so that we, in this critical hour, begin to do the work of prayer. We do not have to know much more about it.
But if you begin to pray, you will see that the Lord will work in your life, in your family, in your city, in your nation, and in the world today.
Pray, “Lord, help us. Lead us on, and be merciful to us all.”