This Week of Prayer by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1909

This Week of Prayer

By Arthur G. Daniells

As we enter upon this week of prayer, I am sure all must feel that it should bring to us and to the cause of God many greatly needed blessings. While our mission is just what it has always been — to proclaim the third angel's message to all the world in this generation — yet the conditions around us in home and foreign fields make great demands upon us. In and of ourselves we are by no means able to meet these demands. But our God, who in ages past planned this movement and at the fixed time set it on foot, has all the resources required to do the work. All these resources await our demand and reception. Earnest, importunate prayer will give us such a sense of both the need and the value of these gifts as will lead us to use them aright when bestowed.

How important it is, then, that we should make this a real week of prayer. It should be more than a week of public services. At our homes and during the day while about our work, we should offer up unceasing prayer to God for the blessings we need personally to fit us for his service and for heaven. We should also earnestly implore him to raise up more laborers and provide more means to do the work before us. And while we pray, let us not fail to surrender our lives for any part he may give us to do.

A. G. DANIELLS.