Dr R. A. Torrey shares with us, "I shall never forget a night in Chicago.
After the general prayer-meeting for a world-wide revival had been going on for some time, the man who most closely associated with me in the conduct of the meetings came over to my house one night after the meeting was over and said,
'Brother Torrey, what do you say to our having a time alone with God every Saturday night after the other meetings are over?
I do not mean,' he continued, 'that we will actually promise to come together every Saturday night; but let us have it tonight anyway.'
There were never more than a dozen persons present, usually about six or seven.
One night when we met to pray, before kneeling in prayer we told one another the things we desired especially to ask of God that night, and then we knelt to pray, and a long silence followed.
No one prayed.
And one of the little company looked up and said, 'I cannot pray, there seems to be something resisting me.'
Then another raised his head and said, 'Neither can I pray, something seems to be resisting me.' Each one had the same story.
What did we do? Break up the prayer-meeting?
No! If we ever felt the need of prayer it was then, and quietly we all bowed before God, and looked to Him to send His Holy Spirit to enable us to pray to victory.
And soon the Spirit of God came upon one and another and I have seldom heard such praying as I heard that night.
And then the Spirit of God came upon me and led me out in such a prayer as I never dreamed of praying.
I was led to ask God that He would send me around the world preaching the Gospel, and give me to see thousands saved in China, in Japan, in Australia, in New Zealand, in Tasmania, in India, in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, France and Switzerland; and when I had finished praying, that night, I knew I was going, and I knew what I would see, as well as I knew I was going.
I knew what I would see as well as I knew afterward when the actual report came of the mighty things that God had wrought.
That prayer meeting sent me around the world preaching the Gospel.
Oh, that is how we must pray, if we would get what we ask in prayer - pray with the intense earnestness that The Holy Ghost alone can inspire."
# 5 Conflict and Assurance of revival, in the series by what Prayer can do, by Dr. R. A. Torrey. Published by REVIVAL
MOVEMENT ASSOCIATION, of Northern Ireland.
www.revivalmovement.org
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The next post by Dr. R. A. Torrey will be 4/23 - #6 Of The Church,
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Posted: 09 Apr 2013 04:00 AM PDT
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