Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.
Interpretation
Prayer is a powerful tool for serving others, often seen as more challenging than taking action.
This quote by Mary Slessor emphasizes the profound strength inherent in prayer, suggesting that praying can be even more difficult than undertaking physical actions. It highlights the belief that through prayer, one can effectively contribute to the greater good and promote spiritual growth, indicating that the true essence of advancing a cause, such as the Kingdom, lies in the commitment to prayer and its transformative power.
In practice
In a sermon on the importance of faith and action.
My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.
Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!
Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.
God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.
The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.
When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.
You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
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