CONTINUE IN PRAYER by H. L. H.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 10, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 19.

CONTINUE IN PRAYER.

By H. L. H.

It is easy to pray in the hour of anguish and distress. The wicked and the ungodly cry out in their time of sore need; but when the storm is past they cease to pray; when the calm comes they have no further occasion for supplication. But the child of God, who knows really the power and virtue of prayer, loves to “continue in prayer.” He fills his mouth with arguments; he prays as taught by the Holy Ghost. He pours out his soul unto God. Day after day and year after year his supplications rise. He prays without ceasing; like the Son of God, who continued all night in prayer, the watches of the night bear witness to his supplications and the dawning of the morning finds him at the throne of grace.

Continue in prayer. Let the breath of prayer go up amid the turmoil of business, the oppression of care, the temptations that beset, and the trials that surround. Let prayer be made continually, and rise by day and night, and God will hear our prayers and help in time of need. Our prayers like vessels sent afar will bring back rich cargoes from distant lands; and when at last our prayers shall find their fullest answer in the kingdom of God we shall cease to pray and lift up our voices in notes of ceaseless praise.—H. L. H.