At the end of the Norman Harrison’s book “His in A Life of Prayer: The Privilege of a Praying Life” he appeals for believers to make their life a Life of Prayer. Written just short of one hundred years ago these words remain true and exceedingly more needful today.
The Call to A Life of Prayer
By Norman B. Harrison
Our God “worketh for him that waiteth for Him.” Isaiah 64:4 R.V.
Nothing is so greatly needed today as a new demonstration of the power of God in human affairs. Men doubt His love, His power, His purposes of grace in Christ Jesus, yea, His very existence. In this state of doubt they flout, not alone the Gospel invitation, but the moral law itself. In consequence, evil springs up, unrebuked, on all sides.
While men are busy removing the note of authority from the Christian faith, reducing God’s Word to the level of literature, sacred and valuable but a mere record of human experience, the masses wander in the broad fields of indifference or wallow in the deep slough of spiritual despair.
“If the foundations be removed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3
They can make their appeal to One
“whose arm is not shortened that it cannot save.” Isaiah 59:1
The situation is such as to drive the devoted servant of the Lord to his knees, conscious of utter impotence, zealous for His honor, pleading as did the Psalmist of old:
“It is time for thee, Lord, to work: For they have made void thy law.” Psalm 119:126
Such a plea inevitably turns back upon the pleader as a call to consistent, persistent prayer. Do we really long to see God work? Very well; He meets us with the reminder that He “worketh for him that waitest for Him.”
Christians are perplexed, burdened, distressed, divided. We dare not drift with the current [culture]. We must know His mind. We must be led of His Spirit. We must let Him guide us into His paths of peace. Moreover, this personal touch of our Father’s hand in our affairs is just the revivifying of faith that we need. Nothing will so restore the experience of First Century power in the Twentieth Century [now 21st] living. All our perplexities must be a call to prayer, that He may work.