FAITH AND PRAYER

By A. W. Tozer

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much. James 5:16

    In Hebrews we find a long list of benefits which faith
brings  to  its  possessor:  justification,  deliverance,
fruitfulness, endurance, victory over enemies, courage,
strength and even resurrection from the dead.

    Then, everything that is attributed thus to faith might
with equal truth be attributed to prayer; for faith and true
prayer are like two sides of the same coin --- they are
inseparable!

   Men may, and often do, pray without faith (though this
is not true prayer), but it is not thinkable that men should
have faith and not pray.

    Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith
can do, prayer can do when it is offered in faith.

    It  should  not  be  considered  strange,  then,  that an
invitation to prayer is an invitation to omnipotence, for
prayer engages the Omnipresent God and brings Him into
our human affairs.

    According to the Bible, we have because we ask, or we
have not, because we ask not. It does not take much wisdom
to discover our next move.  Is it not to pray and pray again
and again until the answer comes?  Let us not fail the world
and disappoint God by failing to pray!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.