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October 16
THE GOOD AND RIGHT WAY

Scripture: 1 Samuel 12:23 “Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and right way.”

    When the people’s request was granted, they became fearful and asked Samuel to intercede for them.  He made a great reply as above.  Samuel’s words teach that prayerlessness is robbery of our fellows.  When we do not pray for our brethren, we sin against them. Perhaps many painfully limp and hobble through life who might have walked in triumph but for our prayerlessness…
    Thinking of Samuel’s prayers for others, we think of John Welsch of Ayr, whose knees were calloused with all-night prayer.  He would rise at midnight, fling a plaid across his shoulders, go into his church house that was next door to his house; and kneel down and cry to God; ‘I cannot sleep with three thousand people out there in the town, and I know not how it is with many of them’.”
     The Bible says in Ps. 119:97, “O how love I thy law: it is my meditation all the day.” And in Ps. 119:103, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste; yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth;” The power of prayer creates in the heart of believers a real love for the Scriptures.  There is no one who can love the Bible, who does not love to pray, and no one who loves to pray that does not meditate and delight in the Word of God.       
     We must study the Word of God in order to find the promises of prayer given and to build our prayers around those promises.  When we approach God in prayer, knowing what promises He has made, we need but to ask Him for the things He has promised.  The Word of God gives us the promise and prayer claims that promise by faith.  Why not claim your promise today?