Dear John and Doves,
 
All of us are acutely aware that America is in crisis.       
It's crunch time for the Bride of Christ to perform as one Body for Christ and pray!
That's a foreign thing to most, but not to the TRUE Body of Christ!  Our Lord agonized in prayer and so do we!  
Billy Graham called the nation to pray and fast for this nation for 40 days.
Are there just too few of us to make a difference with God?
E.M. Bounds says it best "to make a half-hearted, partial consecration is to make no consecration at all"
God is looking down upon us and seeing what we're doing in this hour of crisis.....
 
 
 
 
 
E.M. Bounds, one of the greatest preachers on prayer.
 
W. H. Hodge, writes of E.M. Bounds,   "
 
 I have been among many ministers and slept in
the same room with them for several years. They prayed, but I
was never impressed with any special praying among them until
one day a small man with gray hair and an eye like an eagle came
along. We had a ten day convention. We had some fine preachers
around the home, and one of them was assigned to my room. I
was surprised early next morning to see a man bathing himself
before day and then see him get down and begin to pray.
 
I said to myself, 'He will not disturb us, but will soon finish',
he kept on softly for hours, interceding and weeping softly, for me and my
indifference, and for all the ministers of God.
 
He spoke the next day on prayer. I became interested for I was young in the ministry,
and had often desired to meet with a man of God that prayed like
the saints of the Apostolic age. Next morning he was up praying
again, and for ten days he was up early praying for hours. I
became intensely interested and thanked God for sending him.
'At last,' I said, I have found a man that really prays.
 
 I shall never let him go. He drew me to him with hooks of steel."
 
 
E.M. Bounds wrote........'The Essentials of Prayer'
 
God wants consecrated men because they can pray and will pray. He can

use consecrated men because he can use praying men.   Prayerless men

are in his way, hinder him, and prevent the success of his cause, so likewise

unconsecrated men are useless to him, and hinder him in carrying out his

gracious plans, and in executing his noble purposes in redemption. God

wants consecrated men because he wants praying men. Consecration and

prayer meet in the same man. Prayer is the tool with which the consecrated

man works. Consecrated men are the agents through whom prayer works.

Prayer helps the consecrated man in maintaining his attitude of

consecration, keeps him alive to God, and aids him in doing the work to

which he is called and to which he has given himself. Consecration helps to

effectual praying. Consecration enables one to get the most out of his

praying.

 

Consecration is the voluntary set dedication of one's self to God, an offering

definitely made, and made without any reservation whatever. It is the

setting apart of all we are, all we have, and all we expect to have or be, to

God first of all. It is not so much the giving of ourselves to the church, or the

mere engaging in some one line of church work. Almighty God is in view and

he is the end of all consecration. It is a separation of one's self to God, a

devotement of all that he is and has to a sacred use. Some things may be

devoted to a special purpose, but it is not consecration in the true sense.

Consecration has a sacred nature. It is devoted to holy ends. It is the

voluntary putting of one's self in God's hands to be used sacredly, holily,

with sanctifying ends in view.

Consecration is not so much the setting one's self apart from sinful things

and wicked ends, but rather it is the separation from worldly, secular and

even legitimate things, if they come in conflict with God's plans, to holy

uses. It is the devoting of all we have to God for his own specific use. It is a

separation from things questionable, or even legitimate, when the choice is

to be made between the things of this life and the claims of God.

The consecration which meets God's demands and which he accepts is to be

full, complete, with no mental reservation, with nothing withheld. It cannot

be partial, any more than a whole burnt offering in Old Testament times

could have been partial. The whole animal had to be offered in sacrifice. To

reserve any part of the animal would have seriously vitiated the offering. So

to make a half-hearted, partial consecration is to make no consecration at

all, and is to fail utterly in securing the divine acceptance. It involves our

whole being, all we have and all that we are. Everything is definitely and

voluntarily placed in God's hands for his supreme use.
 
 
 
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