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