July.22.02: Light For The Day - "Earnest Prayer"

-- Jeremiah 3:3 (NIV)
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you
great and unsearchable things you do not know.'

-- Colossians 4:2 (NIV)
"Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful."

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Today we have learned to harness the power of the atom,
but very few of us have learned how to develop fully the power of prayer. We have not yet learned that a man can be more powerful on
his knees than behind the most powerful weapons ever developed.

We have not learned that a nation is more powerful when it unites in
earnest prayer to God than when its resources are channeled into weapons. We have not discovered that the answer to our problems can be through contact with the living God.

Weapons by themselves will not keep us safe or solve the world's problems. Our basic problems are spiritual in nature, and only spiritual solutions will solve them. That is why prayer is so vital, for only God can change the human heart.

Who knows what might happen if millions of believers around the world availed themselves of the greatest privilege this side of Heaven -- the privilege of intercessory prayer? 
Will you be one of them?

-- Billy Graham

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-- Romans 12:12 (NIV)
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

-- Ephesians 6:18 (NIV)
"And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with
all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind,
be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints."

-- Philippians 4:6 (NIV)
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God."

-- 1 Thessalonians 5:17,18 (NIV)
"pray continually;
18 give thanks in all circumstances,
for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

-- Matthew 26:41 (NIV)
"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.
The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."