Samuel Chadwick: It is not every kind of praying that works such wonders. It takes a man of prayer to pray as Elijah and George Muller prayed.

It is the energized prayer of the righteous man that is of great force. The widow knew that Elijah was a man of God when he prayed her boy back to life (1 Kings 17:24). (Google image, George Muller's orphanage, Hero of the faith)

It is always the crowning proof and the ultimate test. Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church, and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.

There is passion in the praying that prevails. Elijah was a man of passions all compact. There was passion in all he did. All there was of him went into everything he did.

God loves a man aflame. The lukewarm He cannot abide. He never keeps hot hearts waiting. "Then will I be found of you when ye seek Me with all your hearts."

When Elijah prayed, he prayed in his prayer. Is there not much praying in which there is no prayer? The praying man was his petition. Listen to his praying in the death chamber. Watch him on Carmel. Hear him plead the honor of God and cry unto the Lord for the affliction of the people.

It is always the same: Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief—Jesus in a sweat of blood.

Add to the list from the records of the Church, personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. It prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. There is no power like that of prevailing prayer.

A man tells me of a great anxiety in his business life. Like Jehoshaphat, he had no resources to meet the need, and he knew not what to do, but he continued earnestly in prayer and supplication to God until one day there came a great peace into his soul and he knew that he was heard.

The conditions were unchanged, but he had an assurance of peace, and in a most unexpected way and by a comparatively unknown person, deliverance came. The explanation was obvious, but the answer was no less sure.

It always seems to me quite useless to argue about prayer; a challenge like that made by Huxley is utterly futile. The proof that God answers prayer is in praying.

Another story that I may repeat comes from the Rev. T. A. Turney. He was a scholar in a school where the schoolmaster was both the master and his uncle. The man was one of the old sort, who taught by making his scholars find out things for themselves.

He was harder with his nephew than with the rest, lest he should be suspected of favoritism. The lad came to a deadlock like that which awaits us all at some stage of learning. There was a problem in mathematics he could not do.

Day after day he brought it to the master, only to be sent back to try again. When this had gone on for more than a week, the lad went one night to a mission service and gave his heart to God.

At the communion rail he began to pray. When he got home he turned again to his problem, with the same result. So when he knelt down to pray he once more asked God to help him with his problem. In the night — asleep or awake he does not know — he saw the proposition worked out. He got up and wrote it down.

Next morning he took it to the master, who answered sharply. "Right! Who showed you?" "God," answered the boy.

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THE PATH OF PRAYER
By Samuel Chadwick
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Used by the permission of

www.cliffcollege.ac.uk
(Emphasis added)

Let's pray-

Father, as nothing will turn a nation back to You so surely and so quickly as a Church that prays and prevails, we long for this crowning proof and ultimate test to become a reality in us.

The truth is, there is no supernatural power in a rationalized, socialized Church or a moralized gospel, which has been proven to not awaken the conviction of sin, and which will win no converts to faith in Christ.

Elijah was a man of passion in all that he did, involving all there

was to him. He prevailed because of being a man aflame for You.
As You cannot abide in a lukewarm heart's prayer, we are to remember,
Your Word says that You will be found by someone seeking You with all their heart.
May we seek You honestly and wholeheartedly today, that we may be involved in the greatest force on earth!
In Christ's name, and for his glory we pray. Amen

Today's Bible verses-

Eph. 1:3-6 (NKJV) "I thank my God upon every
remembrance of you, (v. 4) always in every prayer
of mine making request for you all with joy, (v. 5)
for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day
until now, (v. 6) being confident of this very thing,
that He who has begun a good work in you will
complete it until the day of Jesus Christ."

2 Tim. 1:6, 7 (NKJV) "Therefore I remind you to stir up
the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of
my hands. (v. 7) For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

Today's quote-

~ Oswald Chambers- "God ventured His all in Jesus Christ to save us, and now He wants us to venture our all with total abandoned confidence in Him. There are areas in our lives where that faith has not worked in us as yet — places still untouched by the life of God.

There were none of those places in Jesus Christ’s life, and there are to be none in ours. Jesus prayed, “This is eternal life, that they may know You . . . ” (John 17:3). The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance — a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

From My Utmost for His Highest Updated Edition

Did you know?

~ Physically, emotionally and mentally we're to relax to maintain strength and total refreshing.

~ We're to build a culture that celebrates the varieties found in the gifts of the people God has place around us.

Today's special post-

BreakPoint: ‘The Noblest and Most Precious Work’

Honoring and Encouraging Motherhood

A beautiful letter At BreakPoint.org, my colleague Shane Morris recently wrote to his six-year-old daughter, in which he encouraged her to think of marriage and motherhood as callings worth pursuing, not as afterthoughts. Shane described how his daughter already is in the habit of tucking her little brother’s trucks to bed. Shane is right in seeing in those nurturing instincts things worth celebrating and cultivating.

AVOID HELL at all costs. Demons will torture people mercilessly there. Here is a biblical testimony of hell. Testimony of Bill Wiese, who visted hell for 23 minutes. (This is a testimony that is supported by many Scriptures!)

Another book of a testimony is, A DIVINE REVELATION OF HELL, by Mary K Baxter, who visited all parts of hell with Jesus for 30 nights straight, in an out-of-body experience, and experienced being alone there, thinking Jesus had left her).

Upcoming posts-

#38 An Energized Intercessor

16th- Thursday's post by Samuel Chadwick

The Cost of Sanctification
18th- Saturday's post by Oswald Chambers

#39 Praying and the Commonplace
21st- Tuesday's post by Samuel Chadwick

#40 Prayer and Daily Toil
23rd- Thursday's post by Samuel Chadwick