Prayer

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 30.

Read the full edition

THE infinite God hears prayer. The loving God answers prayer. Assurance of this is repeatedly given in His Word.

“The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.” Ps. 34: 15.

The apostle repeats this cheering promise:

“The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers.” 1 Peter 3: 12.

The psalmist knew by experience what he sang, for he declares:

“I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.” “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.” Ps. 34: 4, 6.

“I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.” “Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.” Ps. 116: 1, 8.

That all His children might have courage and hope, our Lord passed through the experiences which we must meet; for He “in the days of His flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and having been heard for His godly fear, tho He was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” Heb. 5: 7, 8.

If Christ the Lord, our great Example, prayed, why should not we? If He needed to pray, why do not we?

God is infinite in knowledge and wisdom and power. He is love personified. He loves us with an everlasting love. Why should we not seek Him? Our need, our helplessness, our hopelessness apart from Him, demand it. His fatherhood, His infinite fulness, His love, invite us. There are conditions, but we can all meet them. Then pray.