Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
Interpretation
Persistent prayer is essential for experiencing divine intervention.
This quote emphasizes the importance of perseverance in prayer, encouraging believers not to give up after a brief effort but to continue seeking God with fervor until they see results. The call to 'pray through' suggests that true faith requires sustained commitment and determination, appealing to the idea that divine help comes to those who diligently pursue it.
In practice
During a church service when discussing the power of prayer.
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.
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