There is no force on earth which has the power to shape men and women into the creatures God intended them to be like the force unleashed in prayer.
On this, our last day in Delhi, I was privileged to speak once again to the flock at Bible Bhavan. The church is nearing the end of their annual 40 days of prayer and fasting which begins on the first day of every new year. The text I spoke from this Sunday was Daniel 9:1-19. I was so blessed in my personal study of this passage to see just how the mighty force of prayer had shaped Daniel! Of prayer's power to mold us, E.M. Bounds wrote:
"Never did the cause of God need perfect illustrations of the possibilities of prayer more than in this age. No age, no person, will be examples of the gospel power except the ages or persons of deep and earnest prayer. A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. Prayerless hearts will never rise to these Alpine heights… It is prayer-force which makes saints. Holy characters are formed by the power of real praying. The more of true saints, the more of praying; the more of praying, the more of true saints."
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