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.