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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 1.

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Noon-Hour Prayer

By Editor

"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends."
PRAYER has been called "the passageway from spiritual thirst to spiritual refreshing." Our Father has promised to send "showers of blessing" upon his waiting people, and he is anxious to fulfil this promise to each individual who will claim it in perfect faith. There may be obstacles in your life which seem to mean absolute failure in the accomplishment of God's highest purpose for you. You have determined to overcome these obstacles. You are anxious that they shall be taken out of your life. You have worried and toiled and have so far failed in your purpose. Perhaps despair is beginning to settle upon you, and hope is fading from your life because all your doing has been of no avail.
Dear friend, why not try the asking and believing, which brings all the resources of heaven to your assistance? Begin to live the prayer life. Pray and believe, and God will soften hearts which all your doing could never touch; "pray, and he will heal that cruel estrangement which is slowly crushing you; pray, and he will meet your needs, both temporal and spiritual; pray, and he will weave all the tangled threads of your life, which seem beyond hope of disentanglement, into the single golden strand of his great purpose for you; pray, and he will work changes unthought of, and bring providences undreamed of; pray, and he will overturn and overturn, until darkness changes to light, bondage to liberty, bridgeless chasms to safe highways, granite walls to webs of gossamer, because a miracle-working God has fulfilled his promise. If ye ask, I will do."

Requests for Prayer

1. A brother writes in behalf of his wife, who is suffering with her eyes. He asks us to pray that if it is God's will she may not lose her sight.
2. Writing from Tennessee, a sister requests prayer for the conversion of her children; and for herself, that she may be restored to health and enabled to overcome a hasty temper.
3. A sister in Montana desires that prayer be offered for the conversion of her husband and two sons.
4. "I ask God's people to pray that my husband may accept this truth, and that my youngest son, who is only a nominal Seventh-day Adventist, may be truly converted. I have been in poor health for a number of years, and desire healing if it is God's will to restore me," writes an anxious sister.
5. From California a sister sends the request that we pray for the conversion of her adopted daughter, who was once an earnest Christian, but has given up all for the world.
6. We have another request from California. A burdened wife and mother writes: "Please pray for the healing of my husband, and for the conversion of my two sons."
7. An aged brother and sister in Washington, who accepted this message late in life, after their children were grown, ask our united prayers that their five sons and five daughters may be led to obey the truth of God.
8. Pray the merciful Heavenly Father to come especially near the members of an afflicted family in Ontario. Two sons and a daughter are unconverted. Another daughter, who is attending one of our academies, can not continue her work much longer unless her parents are able to dispose of their home in South Dakota. They are very anxious that this property be sold so that she may be trained for a place in this closing work. The wife's father, step-mother, and sister are mentally unbalanced.
9. An anxious mother requests that prayer be offered for the restoration of her daughter, who has been obliged to leave school because of poor health. She also asks that we pray for her husband, who is interested in the truth, but lacks the courage to take his stand with this people.
10. An earnest plea comes from a father in Maryland whose thirteen-year-old son was influenced to leave home some weeks ago. He has returned, butseems to be under the power of the adversary. Let us pray that he may be delivered. This brother also asks prayer for the healing of the deacon in their little church.
11. A sister writing from Oklahoma requests that we pray for the conversion of her brother and sister.
12. A brother residing in Nova Scotia, who is suffering from neurasthenia, asks that prayer be offered for his healing.
13. A request comes from Iowa in behalf of a blind sister who has recently suffered a stroke of paralysis, and is unable to help herself. Her husband is also blind, and the friend who writes asks us to pray that this sister may recover from the paralytic shock.
14. A Michigan sister asks: "Please join with me in praying for the conversion of my husband, mother, three sisters, two brothers and their families, and a friend."
15. From the same State (Michigan) a brother writes desiring prayer in behalf of his mother, who is an invalid, and for the healing of an aged lady friend whom the doctors have given up to die.
16. A Texas sister asks us to pray for her backslidden husband, that he may again take a firm stand for the truth, and use his means in helping to spread the message of a soon-coming Saviour.
17. A Montana friend requests our prayers that she may overcome certain faults that hinder her from being a good home-maker.