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Time to Seek the Lord

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 45.

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Time to Seek the Lord

By L. F. STARR

“It is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness.” “Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.”
The keynote of the coming week of prayer will be the finishing of the work. The time has come for the reign of righteousness and for God to favor Zion. For years God’s faithful ones here and there have been, during the week of prayer, crying to God for a revival of the work.
We believe that God is working mightily, and what we have seen and heard is but the cloud like a man’s hand in token of that which is to follow. We are convinced that the call for the week of prayer, December 9-16, has been wrought out by the Holy Spirit. Surely as we look around us and see the spiritual dearth and the world’s great need, we can but feel the need of prevailing prayer! What is needed? Is it not that we prevail with God for more of the convincing, converting, saving power of the Holy Spirit? O that God may mightily and speedily bring his people into such oneness with himself and with one another that the very flood-gates of heaven may be opened in answer to their united cry for his righteousness and for liberal gifts with which to forward the work!
Shall we not more than ever before take upon our hearts the sins of God’s professed people, and weep and pray for Zion? Come, beloved, let us covenant that for Zion’s sake we will not hold our peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake we will not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
“Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
L. F. STARR, of Iowa.