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The Noon-Hour Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 9, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 2.

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The Noon-Hour Prayer

By Editor

OUR every need is a call to prayer. The Heavenly Father has promised deliverance to "the needy . . . and him that hath no helper." The very need that burdens and perplexes you, dear reader, is the condition and pledge of divine blessing. The moment you come to a need, remember also you have come to a promise which you can claim in faith because, in the profoundest sense, there is no unanswered prayer. Every one who prays receives something. The closet of prayer is heaven's base of supplies, and no one is turned away empty-handed.
"Sometimes we ask for something which is not according to God's will. Then as we pray, it is in the midst of our prayer that we are led to give up our own will, and come into humble submission to God's better will. This was Paul's experience. He prayed three times, and God did not give the thing he asked for, but God gave submission to his divine will, and abounding grace for the weakness which remained. . . .
You and I have gone into the place of prayer with the life of some loved one trembling in the balance. How hard it was for us to ask anything else than that God might show forth his healing power. We prayed on and on; and as we prayed, we saw that this might not be his will. As we realized that, instead of rebellion, we found God pouring out upon us a conscious spirit of submission. Then and there we said, 'Thy will be done.' If we had no other blessing in prayer, this alone would be enough, for there is no more precious blessing in all life than that of a will wholly yielded to God. This comes in prayer, whether we receive the specific thing we are asking for or not."

Requests for Prayer

18. An anxious mother, writing from New Hampshire, asks prayer for the conversion of two wayward daughters.
19. A Michigan sister requests our united prayers for the conversion of her husband and son. She has been praying for them for many years.
20. A sister in California, whose husband is a drinking man refusing to support his family, wishes us to pray that she may have physical and spiritual strength in her trouble, and wisdom to know just what to do. Her mother has just died, and our sister is passing through severe trials.
21. From Michigan a sister sends the request that prayer be offered for her healing, and also that her husband may give up the use of tobacco and accept Christ as his personal Saviour.
22. A Texas Bible worker, who is very sick and seems to be growing worse, asks us to pray for her recovery, if this is God's will for her.
23. From the same State (Texas) another sister writes asking prayer for the conversion of her husband and five children.
24. An afflicted sister requests that we pray for her healing. She has suffered from stomach trouble and a nervous disease for about fifteen years, and is an invalid. She also desires that we pray for the conversion of her husband, two children, parents, brothers, and sisters, who are all Catholics.
25. A Minnesota sister asks prayer for the conversion of her children and their families; for the healing of a brother in the church who is suffering from cancer; for a sister in the truth who is just now passing through severe trials; and for herself that she may be healed of an affliction from which she has suffered for many years.