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| Topic Started: May 7 2010, 08:06 AM (248 Views) | |
| Ruth | May 7 2010, 08:06 AM Post #1 |
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 Title: As Soon As You Begin to Pray Author: Elisabeth Elliot Devotion: Elisabeth Elliot Book: A Lamp For My Feet Title: As Soon As You Begin to Pray Prayer sets spiritual forces in motion, although the effect is often invisible, perhaps for a long time. In the first year of the reign of Darius, Daniel was reading and reflecting about the seventy years of Jerusalem's Iying in ruins. He turned to God in "earnest prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes," confessing Israel's sins and beseeching God for forgiveness and restoration. The angel Gabriel came close to him in the hour of evening sacrifice, "flying swiftly." "As you were beginning your supplications a word went forth" (Dn 9:23 NEB), he said. The answer was already beginning to be processed when the prayer was offered. It took a very long time. Periods of weeks and years for the nation, and times of mourning, solitude, weakness, and fear on Daniel's part were required before the answer could come to pass. We should take heart from Gabriel's message. Though our prayers seem feeble and sometimes appear to have gone unheard, a word has gone forth. Spiritual agents from the throne room of the King of kings are mobilized against spiritual forces from the headquarters of evil, and there will be ultimate victory. "Tremendous power is made available through a good man's earnest prayer" (Jas 5:16 JBP). |
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