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A.W. Tozer
Believing Prayer
Men may, and often do, pray without faith
(though this is not true prayer), but it is not thinkable that men should
have faith and not pray. The biblical formula is The prayer of faith.
Prayer and faith are here bound together by the little preposition of,
and what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Faith is only
genuine as it eventuates into prayer. When Tennyson wrote More things
are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, he probably uttered a
truth of vaster significance than even he understood. While it is not
always possible to trace an act of God to its prayer-cause, it is yet
safe to say that prayer is back of everything that God does for the sons
of men here upon earth. One would gather as much from a simple reading
of the Scriptures. What profit is there in prayer? Much every way. Whatever
God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when
it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation
to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into
our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith,
just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove
all that prayer can do for believing men and women.
