p. 24 | After the Week of Prayer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

After the Week of Prayer

THE special season of prayer upon which our people have now entered should be a time of sowing for future blessings as well as a time of reaping present blessings. With a whole people united in prayer, we know that the blessing of God will follow; but the whole people can not do the work of the individual; and no individual can wisely depend upon the whole people’s influence for the individual blessing which he must have. There is power and blessing in united prayer; but the power and blessing come to those who are united in it. Each must believe for himself, surrender for himself, and receive for himself. He who does this, and, with his face “set as a flint Zionward,” goes on from triumph to triumph, is sowing the seed for a harvest of future blessing, rich and abundant. The blessings received now, the experiences gained now, must not be forgotten, or folded away as if to be kept for another occasion one year hence. This season of prayer will have accomplished nothing for us unless we put into practical use what it brings to us. And unless we do that, we are not keeping pace with the message. It is a fact of serious import, and should lead us to make the strongest determination to go on from this landmark in the strength of God to do his bidding and to share in the victory soon to be.