Magnificent Prayer #225
Magnificent Prayer #225
[This was Elijah’s plea:] “Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God.”
1 Kings 18:37 KJV
The answer to prayer is the part of prayer which glorifies God. Unanswered prayers are dumb oracles which leave the praying ones in darkness, doubt, and bewilderment and which carry no conviction to the unbeliever. It is not the act or the attitude of praying which gives efficacy to prayer. It is not abject prostration of the body before God, the vehement or quiet utterance to God, the exquisite beauty and poetry of the diction of our prayers, which do the deed. It is not the marvelous array of argument and eloquence in praying which makes prayer effectual. Not one or all of these are the things which glorify God. It is the answer which brings glory to His name.
E. M. BOUNDS
Pray About It: Why pray if we don’t expect an answer? God is glorified when we see His faithfulness made real through answered prayer. Thank God for the answers that are already on their way, and then watch for them.
He will glorify Himself through your prayers.
Let our prayer be that God may advance His work, not for our glory—not for our sake—but for the sake of His beloved Son whom He hath sent.
DWIGHT MOODY
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