“Prayer can obtain everything; it can open the windows of
heaven, and shut the gates of hell; it can put a holy constraint upon God, and
detain an angel until he leaves a blessing; it can open the treasures of rain,
and soften the iron ribs of rocks til they melt into tears and a flowing river…it
can arrest the sun in the midst of its course, and send the swift-winged winds
upon our errands; and to all these strange things and secret decrees, add
unrevealed transactions which are above the stars...
“When Hudson Taylor was asked if he ever prayed without any consciousness of joy, he
replied: “Often: sometimes I pray on
with my heart feeling like wood; often, too, the most wonderful answers have
come when prayer has been a real effort of faith without any joy whatever.” “--Lettie Cowman
“I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it
came; at some time—no matter how distant the day—somehow, in some shape,
probably the last I should have devised, it
came.”—Adoniram Judson
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