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The Noon-Hour Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 42.

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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.”
We should seek to cooperate with God in bringing about an answer to our prayers. For us to pray for deliverance from disease, while we are knowingly and wilfully going on from day to day transgressing the laws of our being which God has established, is presumption. It is a duty that each one owes to himself as well as to his Creator to seek to acquaint himself with the laws of his being, and learn how he may bring his life into harmony with God’s requirements. Oftentimes this will bring the desired blessing. Heaven is seeking through many natural agencies, such as rest, sleep, food, water, and air, to keep in harmonious operation the machinery of our bodies, and enable them to regain from day to day the loss and waste. For one to place himself in the channel of these blessings, for one to take needed rest, breathe both day and night the pure air of heaven, drink copiously of pure water, eat food that makes for strength and not for drunkenness and surfeiting, is to cooperate with his Creator in obtaining that which he desires. On the contrary, for one to continue ruthlessly and knowingly to violate the laws of health affords a kind Providence little encouragement to work in his behalf. His life and probation would only be continued for a course of further transgression. Let us seek to use every means in our power, and study the laws of life and health, so that we may place ourselves in that relationship of loving obedience where God can consistently work in our behalf.
The following requests have come to us during the last week:—
106. A burdened sister writes from western Nebraska, asking prayer for the conversion of her husband’s mother, who is very ill, and has not yet accepted Christ as her personal Saviour.
107. A mother in the same State (Nebraska) asks the prayers of God’s people for the conversion of her children. She is especially burdened for a son who drinks.
108. A Michigan sister requests prayer for the conversion of two brothers; for a brother-in-law who has given up the truth; and for her youngest sister, who is seeking to live out the truth in the face of many opposing influences.
109. From Ohio a sister sends a request for prayer that she may overcome the evil agencies that have been employed of late to undermine her faith, and also that Satan’s power over her mother and sisters may be broken.
110. An earnest request comes from the burdened parents of a fourteen-year-old boy in Colorado. Their only son has been stricken with tumor of the brain, and no earthly help can bring relief. Let us remember this stricken family when we bow before the throne of grace, and plead with God for the restoration of the boy if it be his will.
111. A sister sends this word from California: “Will you please pray for my niece who is suffering from paralysis, and also that if it be the dear Lord’s will, I may receive my hearing again?”
112. A Florida sister, who is just now passing through a time of great trial and temptation, asks our prayers that she may stand firm for the truth and right.
113. “I feel my health giving way with symptoms of an incurable disease. Please pray that God may send his healing power and strengthen me for his work if this be in accordance with his will,” is the request of a sister in Alabama.