PRAYER IS VERY IMPORTANT TO GOD

Isaiah 58:9 Then when you pray, GOD will answer. You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.' "If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims, quit gossiping about other people's sins,
Isaiah 58:14 Then you'll be free to enjoy GOD! Oh, I'll make you ride high and soar above it all. I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob." Yes! GOD says so! (MSG)

IT must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His hand is always on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the distress of time. “His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.” He rules the world just as He rules the Church by prayer. This message needs to be emphasized, repeated and retold to all people in these modern days and brought to recognize the increasing force on the main beliefs of this generation whose eyes have no vision for the eternal things, whose ears are deaf toward God.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with humankind. But it is likewise all-important for people to pray. Failure to pray is failure along the whole line of life. It is failure of duty, service, and spiritual progress. God must help people by prayer. They, who do not pray, therefore, robs themselves of God’s help and places God where He cannot help them. They must pray to God if love for God is to exist. Faith and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of goodness are withered and dead in a prayer-less life. The life of the individual believer, their personal salvation, and personal Christian graces has their being, bloom and fruits in prayer.

All this and much more can be said as to the necessity of prayer to the being, and culture of faithfulness in the individual. But prayer has a larger sphere, a more required duty, a loftier motivation. Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. The days of God’s splendor and renown have always been the great days of prayer. God’s great movements in this world have been conditioned on, continued and fashioned by prayer. God has put Himself in these great movements just as people have prayed. Present, prevailing, conspicuous and mastering prayer has always brought God to be present. The real and obvious test of a genuine work of God is the prevalence of the spirit of prayer. God’s mightiest forces surcharge and impregnate a movement when prayer’s mightiest forces are there.