PRAYER! WHAT IS IT? COMMUNION WITH GOD
If radio's slim finders Can pluck a melody From night and toss it over A continent or sea; If the petaled white notes Of a violin Are blown across a mountain Ov a city’s din; If songs like crimson roses, Are culled from thin blue air, Why should mortals wonder If God hears prayer? VICTORIOUS FRAYKK. To pray in the name of Christ is to claim, by an act of triumphing faith, that what He says can be done shall be done. It is surely no more presumptuous to exercise authority in His Name over the forces of evil, so as to tread them down and rob them of their power to work mischief (Luke x.: 19 ), than it is to use the same authority as, in the same Name and at the command of the same One, we go forth to proclaim the everlasting Gospel! (Matt xxviii.: 19, 20). “If ye shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it.” If we can but catch the full vision of Calvar>s, as God’s pledge of complete victory over the powers of darkness for His Son and all who follow Him, we shall find timidity in prayer giving place to courageous faith, and the conviction deepening in the spirit, that, in alliance with the Holy Ghost, we can. by the authority of Him Who is enthroned in glory through the Cross, remove mountains, pull down strongholds, deliver captives from prison houses, and see the victory won. (From “Effectual Fervent Prayer.“ by the late Rev. Gordon II Watt, M. A.).
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 406, 18 May 1929, Page 8
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