The other day I was looking in a Bible my husband had given me in 1976, and I found this very sobering quote -- convicting me, and reminding me again of the supreme importance of intercessory prayer!
"When I stand before God on the judgment day -- saved at a fearful cost,
Will someone be there, who for lack of prayer, must go to the world of the lost?
Will somebody's eyes look up at me, with hopeless, accusing stare?
Will somebody say, 'I might have been saved if you had been instant in prayer?'
Will someone go down to endless despair, to spend the eternal years
Where hope is unknown, and rest never, in anguish too bitter for tears,
Because I neglected to mind the Lord, neglected to fast and pray?
For the Lord of the harvest plainly said that this was the only way.
Lord, help me now to improve the time -- O, help me, Lord to see --
That no one may say at the judgment day -- 'Why did you not pray for me?'"
God's Word tells us in the book of James: "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
Dwight L. Moody said: "Behind every great movement of God there is a kneeling figure."
May the following little quote challenge our hearts as we begin another week of living for Jesus, our wonderful Lord!
"Every day God leaves us here on earth, we are to be like Salt (making others thirsty for God), a Magnet (drawing others to God), and Light (pointing the way to God)."
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