Prayer and Fervency, Part 1 (TPMD Bus 2 - #673)

POEM: "Prayer and Praise" by James Timothy Harvey

Our prayer motivator passage from the Word of God today is Psalm 122:6 which reads: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee."

Our featured prayer motivator quote is from Samuel Chadwick. He said, "God wills that men should pray everywhere, but the place of His glory is in the solitudes, where He hides us in the cleft of the rock, and talks with man face to face as a man talks with his friend.”

My personal encouragement for you today is this: Families are in need of a great amount of intercession. Even if your marriage and family seem strong right now, seek out those families in your community who are on the rocks and make it your mission to pray for them daily. 

Our prayer motivator devotional today is titled "PRAYER AND FERVENCY” part 1 from the book, "Necessity of Prayer" by E.M. Bounds.

PRAYER, without fervour, stakes nothing on the issue, because it has nothing to stake. It comes with empty hands. Hands, too, which are listless, as well as empty, which have never learned the lesson of clinging to the Cross.

Fervourless prayer has no heart in it; it is an empty thing, an unfit vessel. Heart, soul, and life, must find place in all real praying. Heaven must be made to feel the force of this crying unto God.

Paul was a notable example of the man who possessed a fervent spirit of prayer. His petitioning was all-consuming, centered immovably upon the object of his desire, and the God who was able to meet it.

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