"Let all lovers of souls, and all workers in the service of
the gospel, take courage. Time spent in
prayer will yield more than given to work.
Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do
His work in us and through us. Let our chief
work as God’s messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and the
power of God to go with us. Let us give
ourselves to be intercessors. Let every
sight of souls needing help, let every stirring of the spirit of compassion,
let every sense of our own impotence to bless, let every difficulty in the way
of our getting an answer, just combine to urge us to do this one thing: with
importunity to cry out to the God who alone can help, who, in answer to our prayer,
will help…The model intercessor is the model Christian worker. First to get from God, and then to give to
men what we ourselves secure from day to day, is the secret of successful
work. Between our impotence and God’s
omnipotence, intercession is the blessed link."
--Andrew Murray, The
Ministry of Intercession
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