How Mighty Are Your Prayers?

Exodus 17:12 - 13 “But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.”

Both praying and fighting the enemy were needed in life’s situation today. So powerful was the prayer of Moses that everything depended on it. The prayers of Moses caused the enemy to be unsuccessful more than the warfare of Joshua. What I am trying to say is, in the conflict of our souls, power and passion, choice and dedication, courage and forcefulness, must join their forces, then everything will be well.

We have to wrestle with your sin, but the major part of the wrestling must be done alone in private prayer with God. Prayer, like Moses’, holds up the sign of the covenant before the Lord. The rod was the emblem of God’s working with Moses, the symbol of God’s government in Israel.

Please learn, earnest praying saint of God, to hold up the promise and the oath of God before Him. The Lord cannot contradict His own Word. Hold up the rod of promise from His Word the Holy Bible, and have what you will.

Moses grew tired holding up his arms; as long as he held them up Joshua was successful against the enemy. When Moses’ arms got heavy and started to come down the enemy became successful in the fight. Moses’ friends saw he needed support and assisted him in holding up his arms.

When at any time your prayer become hard or heavy, let faith support one hand, and let holy hope give a lift to the other, and prayer seating yourself on the stone of Israel, the rock of our salvation, will persevere and prevail.

Beware of weakness in devotion; if Moses felt it, who of us can escape this? It is far easier to fight with sin in public, than to pray against it in private.

It is remarked that Joshua never grew weary in the warfare, but Moses did grow tired in the praying; the more spiritual an exercise, the more difficult it is for flesh and blood to maintain it.

Let us cry out to God, then, for special strength, and may the Spirit of God, who helps our weakness’, as He allowed help to Moses, enable us like him to continue with our hands steady “until the going down of the sun;” till the evening of life is over; till we shall come to the rising of a better sun in the land where prayer is swallowed up in praise.

The possibilities of prayer are gauged by faith in God’s ability to do. Faith is the one prime condition by which God works. Faith is the one prime condition by which a person prays. Faith draws on God to its full extent. Faith gives character to prayer. A feeble faith has always brought forth feeble praying. Vigorous faith creates vigorous praying. Christ asks this pointed question, “When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?”