Power in Prayer

Martin Luther the great reformer and leader of the reformation said this concerning prayer, “If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.” There is power when God’s people come together, there is power when God’s people come together and pray, and there is power when God’s people become a people of prayer. In prayer situations get smaller, in prayer circumstances collapse, and in prayer God get’s elevated to His rightful place in our lives. Dr. Guthrie the great Scottish preacher prayed for rain one morning. As they were leaving the house his daughter said to him, “Here’s your umbrella papa.” The preacher responded to his daughter, “what do we need that for?’ She said, “you prayed for rain, don’t you expect that God will answer that prayer?’ Well, later that day when it started pouring rain he was thankful that he listened to his daughter. James tells us that, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.” Prayer gives us a proper perspective. It shows us how big God is, and how small the request really is.