Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God for today is James 4:8 which reads: “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”
Our prayer motivator quote for today is from Samuel Chadwick. He said, “The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.”
Our prayer motivator devotional for today is part 3 of yesterday’s broadcast titled ANSWERED PRAYER IS THE ONLY UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT AGAINST SKEPTICISM, UNBELIEF, MODERNISM, POST-MODERNISM AND INFIDELITY – Part 3 – from Dr. John R. Rice. Dr. Rice said…
Acts 13:6-12 is the story of how Sergius Paulus, a deputy of the island of Cyprus, was wonderfully converted when he saw the answer to Paul’s prayer (the prayer is implied but not given), for the blinding of Elymas the sorcerer. Verse 12 says, “Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.”
We had as well face this question squarely. When the churches of our land again see the startling conversions of drunkards and harlots, with lives transformed, then sinners will come to church and will listen respectfully to the Word of God. And when God’s people pray for and get the healing of the sick, get rain when they need it, get jobs, get daily bread, get revivals, all in answer to prayer, then modernism and atheism will lose their hold on the minds of the mass of people in America, and even the unconverted will believe that there is a miracle-working God who answers prayer.
We ought to pray and have our prayers answered as the definite, powerful antidote for unbelief, the only unanswerable argument against atheism and infidelity.
It is not always God’s will to heal the sick. It was not always His will to heal the sick in Bible times. But He healed the sick often enough to prove that He was the prayer-hearing God. God did not save every sinner under the ministry of Paul, and He will not save every sinner under the ministry of anybody else. But God was willing to save the most outrageous sinners, and in Bible times He did save them by His wonderful stretched-out hand in such fashion as to convince the gainsayers. And God will do the same today and prove His power the same today if we trust Him.
Even in Bible times, miracles were never a common thing, a play thing of the careless and a reward of the curious. No, no! Miracles in physical matters were always rare and were given only as they could honor the Lord. But God gave faith for them often enough to prove tha He is the miracle-working, prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God. And He will do the same today for those who diligently seek Him and give Him a chance to prove Himself.
Bu this does not apply to physical miracles. God proves Himself abundantly by saving the souls of those for whom we pray, by giving revivals, by providing for daily needs, by giving peace, by giving wisdom to meet daily problems, by giving fullness of joy and the power of the Holy Spirit. We should pray, then, because answered prayer proves there is a prayer-hearing God. It is the positive antidote for doubt and skepticism, unbelief or even atheism.
+ Plus, listen to Brian Free singing “A Praying Man”
MP3 Download Link: The Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast #119
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