The Power of Prayer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1916

The Power of Prayer

It has been truly said that prayer is the lever that moves the arm of God. All the marvelous things which have been accomplished by its power we shall never know. We may learn sometime that the sincere prayers of faith, uttered by some of the humblest of God's children, have given a mold and character to his work in the earth beyond all accomplished by human planning and devising.

The story is told of an old-time minister in Ohio who spent the last year of his life in constant intercession to God in behalf of the mission fields of the world. He kept account from day to day of the blessings he asked for different fields. After his death this record was discovered, and it was found that the blessings sought had come to the mission fields in almost the exact order in which he had asked for them.

We must believe that God hears the faithful, earnest prayers of his believing children, from whatever quarter they may arise. We are sometimes led to feel that it is in the centers of the work of God that great blessings may be expected, but this is not necessarily so. The humblest and most isolated worker may enjoy in his own experience the signal outpouring of the Spirit of God; and although cut off from association with his fellows and denied the privilege of giving means for work in other lands, he may enter into the labors of his brethren throughout the world by holding up their hands before God, even as Aaron and Hur held up the hands of Moses. In doing this he may be a sharer in the harvest of souls.