"I think it was at the close of the week of prayer n January, 1901, that Miss Strong, superintendent of women of the Bible Institute of Chicago, came to me and said,
'Why not keep up these prayer meetings at least once a week after the week of prayer is over, and pray for a world-wide revival?'
This suggestion approved itself to the Faculty and we appointed a prayer meeting every Saturday night from nine to ten o'clock (after the popular Bible Class was over) at which people could gather to pray for just one thing - a world-wide revival.
Three or four hundred gathered every Saturday night for that purpose and God gave to us great liberty and great expectation in prayer.
People would come to me and to my colleague who was most intimately associated with me in the conduct of the meetings, and ask, 'Has the revival come?'
We replied, 'No, not as far as we know.'
'When is it coming?' 'We do not know.'
'How long are you going to keep praying?'
'Until it comes."
Today's post - #12 Praying Through,
in the series from what
Prayer can do, by Dr. R. A. Torrey. Published by REVIVAL MOVEMENT ASSOCIATION, of Northern
Ireland.
www.revivalmovement.org
www.revivalmovement.org
The next post by Dr.
R. A. Torrey will
be #13 Two Men From Australia
Let’s pray: Help us understand that it's our responsibility to keep praying for a moving of Your Spirit in our church and area. May we be faithful in the meetings that are called for that to happen. Move on us to instigate their happening, if that's Your desire. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Our Scriptures for when we're very weary, Matthew 11:28-30; Romans 9:31-39
Today’s quote: Karl Barth – “Our position is
such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by
total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes
on our behalf.”
Our thought
today:
We need the power of the Holy Spirit
to do God’s will.
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