“Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.” — 2 Chronicles 30:27
Prayer is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight. When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open, and as long as that road is unobstructed, you will not fall into the enemy’s hand. We can never be taken by blockade, escalade, mine, or storm, so long as heavenly succours can come down to us by Jacob’s ladder to relieve us in the time of our necessities. Prayer is never…
out of season: in summer and in winter itsmerchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead ofnight, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades ofevening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity,or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer andanswer it from His holy place. Nor is prayer ever futile. True prayer isevermore true power. You may not always get what you ask, but you shallalways have your real wants supplied. When God does not answer Hischildren according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thouaskest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee thefinest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain ifinstead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritualmaladies? Is it not better to have the cross sanctified than removed? Thisevening, my soul, forget not to offer thy petition and request, for the Lordis ready to grant thee thy desires.
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