The prayer is a source of power

The prayer is a source of power for our work. If we desire power for any work to which God calls us, we can obtain it by fervent prayer. One day I had a visit from a lady whose little boy was absolutely incorrigible.

Desperate, she exclaimed :

• What to do with him ?
• Have you ever tried prayer ? I asked. She thought she did it.
• But, I say again, have you made of his conversion and change of his character a specific subject of prayer, and have you expected to be fulfilled ?
• I have not been so precise as this.

It began that day and immediately there was a marked change in the child ; he grew up and became a Christian.

How many Sunday school teachers have taught for months and years without really seeing any fruit in his efforts ! Then, having learned the secret of intercession, they saw Christ approaching one by one those for whom they had fervently pleaded with God.

How many poor preachers have become powerful men of God by rejecting far from them all confidence in their abilities and their personal gifts to surrender themselves to God and to expect from him the power from on high ! John Livingstone, with a few like-minded brothers, spent a night in prayer and spiritual talk before God, and when he preached the next day in the Shotts Church, 500 people were converted or were able to date some progress on that day. decisive in their life. Prayer and power are inseparable from each other.

Jeremy Sourdril