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Saturday, November 3, 2007
MORNING:
"Behold, he prayeth."
-- Acts 9:11
Prayers are instantly noticed in heaven. The moment Saul began to pray
the Lord heard him. Here is comfort for the distressed but praying
soul. Oftentimes a poor broken-hearted one bends his knee, but can only
utter his wailing in the language of sighs and tears; yet that groan
has made all the harps of heaven thrill with music; that tear has been
caught by God and treasured in the lachrymatory of heaven. "Thou
puttest my tears into thy bottle," implies that they are caught as they
flow. The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well
understood by the Most High. He may only look up with misty eye; but
"prayer is the falling of a tear." Tears are the diamonds of heaven;
sighs are a part of the music of Jehovah's court, and are numbered with
"the sublimest strains that reach the majesty on high." Think not that
your prayer, however weak or trembling, will be unregarded. Jacob's
ladder is lofty, but our prayers shall lean upon the Angel of the
covenant and so climb its starry rounds. Our God not only hears prayer
but also loves to hear it. "He forgetteth not the cry of the humble."
True, he regards not high looks and lofty words; he cares not for the
pomp and pageantry of kings; he listens not to the swell of martial
music; he regards not the triumph and pride of man; but wherever there
is a heart big with sorrow, or a lip quivering with agony, or a deep
groan, or a penitential sigh, the heart of Jehovah is open; he marks it
down in the registry of his memory; he puts our prayers, like rose
leaves, between the pages of his book of remembrance, and when the
volume is opened at last, there shall be a precious fragrance springing
up therefrom.
"Faith asks no signal from the skies,
To show that prayers accepted rise,
Our Priest is in his holy place,
And answers from the throne of grace."
EVENING:
"Their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto
heaven."
-- 2 Chronicles 30:27
Prayer is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in
every plight. When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon
of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed,
but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order. Leviathan
laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need
furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it
cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may
surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open, and as
long as that road is unobstructed, you will not fall into the enemy's
hand. We can never be taken by blockade, escalade, mine, or storm, so
long as heavenly succours can come down to us by Jacob's ladder to
relieve us in the time of our necessities. Prayer is never out of
season: in summer and in winter its merchandise is precious. Prayer
gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of
business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every
condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander,
or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from
his holy place. Nor is prayer ever futile. True prayer is evermore true
power. You may not always get what you ask, but you shall always have
your real wants supplied. When God does not answer his children
according to the letter, he does so according to the spirit. If thou
askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because he gives thee the
finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if
instead thereof he makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual
maladies? Is it not better to have the cross sanctified than removed?
This evening, my soul, forget not to offer thy petition and request,
for the Lord is ready to grant thee thy desires.
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