The prayer is effective for the salvation of souls

Few conversions take place in the world without the prayer of others intervening. As far as I am concerned, I have long thought that no human being had anything to do with my conversion, because I was not converted to church, Sunday school, or school. a personal interview with anyone. I was awake in the middle of the night and converted. As far as I can remember, I had not, while lying down and falling asleep, the slightest idea of ​​conversion or anything of that kind. But I was awake in the middle of the night and converted in less than five minutes.

A few minutes earlier, I was as close to eternal perdition as anyone. I had one foot overboard, and applied myself to pass the other. I thought, I said, that no human being had anything to do with my conversion, but I had forgotten my mother's prayers and later I learned that one of my classmates had decided to pray for me until I was saved.

Prayer often succeeds where everything else fails. How needlessly did Monique lavish her efforts and exhortations on her son. But his prayers prevailed with God, and the dissolute young man became the influential man of God.

Through prayer, fierce enemies of the Gospel have become his most valiant defenders, the worst villains have become true children of God and the most degraded women the purest saints.

Oh, the power of prayer to come down and seek the men and women who have fallen into the depths of the abyss and raise them higher than the highest peaks to the communion and likeness of God ! It's really wonderful. How badly do we appreciate this extraordinary weapon !

Jeremy Sourdril