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HELPING BY PRAYER

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

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HELPING BY PRAYER.

By P. Alderman

BY P. ALDERMAN.
When we are weak, then we may be strong in the strength of God. Prayer is the precious privilege of the Christian; and in our weakest moments let us remember that “a bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.” He will hear us when we pray, and has promised to give us whatsoever we ask in the name of Jesus.
No doubt many feel that they would like to do more to advance the cause of truth in the earth; prayer is the lever by which we all can lift, and our labor will not be in vain. Our own souls will live and glow at the altar of prayer. We can pray for the lonely ones, who are trying to obey the Lord without any of like faith to comfort and cheer them; we can pray for the weak ones, that they may be established in the truth; we can pray for the dear children, the lambs of the fold. Then there are the erring ones, and the tempted and the tried. If we feel that there is nothing that we can do, then let us remember at the throne of grace these many subjects of prayer.
And above all, let us remember in our prayers the cause of God, which we love. We rejoice to see it go forward, and we know that the hand of the Lord is moving it on. The ark of the covenant, containing the law of God, was carried carefully by holy men of old; and were not the humble in that time awed to silent prayer and reverence at the sight? Shall we not pray that the same holy law may be carried through the earth? Shall we not ask that those who carry it may be holy men? Truly we ought to pray for these laborers, both those in our own country and those in distant lands. They have consecrated their lives to the work, and shall we not ask most earnestly that God will bless their labors?
And for ourselves, how much have we to ask of grace, and strength, and wisdom, before we shall stand complete and entire, wanting nothing, perfect overcomers of self and sin! Do we not need to cry as did the psalmist, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me”?
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