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The Noon-Hour Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 52.

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The Noon-Hour Prayer

“Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.”
“THE greatest thing any one can do for God and for man is to pray.” We can pray with assurance, for the loving Father always answers our petitions. Sometimes the answer is yes, and sometimes it is no; sometimes we receive immediately those things that we have desired, and sometimes the answer is long delayed, but it will surely come. Finite man can not always understand the workings of infinite wisdom, but through every trying experience we can trust God with implicit confidence, even if we do not clearly see the way.
“God would never send you the darkness If he thought you could bear the light; But you would not cling to his guiding hand If the way were always bright; And you would not care to walk by faith Could you always walk by sight.
“’Tis true he has many an anguish For the sorrowful heart to bear, And many a cruel thorn-crown For your tired head to wear; He knows how few would reach heaven at all If pain did not guide them there.
“So he sends you blinding darkness, And the furnace of sevenfold heat. ’Tis the only way, believe me, To keep you close to his feet; For ’tis always so easy to wander When our lives are glad and sweet.
“Then nestle your hand in your Father’s, And sing, if you can, as you go; Your song may cheer some one behind you Whose courage is sinking low. And—well, if your lips do quiver— You will love God better so.”

Requests for Prayer

208. An Indiana sister asks prayers for her unconverted husband; for her youngest son, who has left home and gone out into the world; and for the healing of her aged mother.
209. A friend who is a patient at the Melrose (Mass.) Sanitarium requests that prayer be offered for the healing of her granddaughter, who is losing her hearing as the result of an attack of scarlet fever.
210. Writing from Massachusetts, a brother asks God’s people to pray at the noon hour that he may be restored to health, and enabled to take an active part in this closing work.
211. A Kentucky brother, whose health is broken, desires healing so that he may enter the canvassing field.
212. “Please pray for my husband, who is out of the truth,” writes a Michigan sister. “He has expressed a desire to live a better life. Also pray for his mother, who is about to accept the truth; and for me that I may train my children as will be pleasing to God.”
213. An isolated sister in New York State requests prayers that her husband may overcome the tobacco habit. He has tried to do this many times, but has always failed. Let us also pray for the conversion of their daughter, an only child, and for the mother, that her health may be restored.
214. From California an afflicted sister sends the request that prayer be offered for her healing. She is an invalid, and her six little children sadly need her care.
215. Another California sister writes: “Please pray for a sister who is sorely afflicted with evil thoughts, that God may deliver her. Also pray for the healing of another sister who has suffered from a weak stomach and back for many years.”
216. A burdened sister in Oregon requests prayer for the conversion of her husband and children, and asks that we also pray that troubles which threaten to break up their home may be righted.
217. A sister writing from Wisconsin, asks prayer for the conversion of her sixteen-year-old brother.
218. From the same State (Wisconsin) an anxious mother sends the request that we remember her wayward son in prayer. She does not know where he is at present, and greatly desires that he may return home and accept Christ as his Saviour.
219. A sister in Florida, who is paralyzed, desires to be restored to health if it is God’s will to heal her. Let us pray for her.
220. “I desire the prayers of God’s people for the conversion of my four children and my husband,” writes a friend from Nevada.
221. A touching request comes from a brother residing in Louisiana, who before his conversion led a very wild life. He has been having a terrible fight with the enemy, and desires the prayers of God’s children that he may have complete victory over his besetting sins.