Is Your Praying Large Enough For Your Needs?

OLD TESTAMENT history is filled with accounts of praying saints. The leaders of Israel in those early days were noted for their praying habits. Prayer is the one thing which stands out prominently in their lives.

To begin with, note the confrontation in Joshua 10, where the very sun and moon were made subject to prayer. A prolonged battle was going on between the Israelites and their enemies, and when night was rapidly coming on, and it was discovered that a few more hours of daylight were needed to ensure victory for the Lord’s hosts, Joshua, that strong man of God, stepped into the breach, with prayer. The sun was too rapidly declining in the west for God’s people to reap the full fruits of a noted victory, and Joshua, seeing how much depended upon the occasion, cried out in the sight and in the hearing of Israel, “Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon, and thou moon in the Valley of Ajalon.” And the sun actually stood still and the moon stopped on her course at the command of this praying man of God, till the Lord’s people had avenged themselves upon the Lord’s enemies.

Is your praying large enough for your needs? Is your God large enough for your needs? Can the God of the universe who created all things and allows us to call Him “Father” able to stop your sun and moon to have victory over His and your enemies? We are told to “ask” and we WILL receive if we believe. Do you believe our Father will?

Tomorrow we will look at the life of Jacob, and see how prayer saved his life.

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