3. The Importance of Prayer

The Importance of Prayer The story of Hannah is a very interesting one. We can view the incident of the prayer in three ways, first of all as an actual occurrence so full of interest to see how the Lord wrought with His servant, then prophetical, it looks on to that wonderful day when God’s anointed, God’s King, Christ, the Son of God will have supremacy in this world and all the enemies of God overthrown, then its application to us today, and this is what we are particularly concerned about that we might get some encouragement in this matter of prayer.

Individually and collectively, we are all concerned about spiritual progress. We continually hear of decline in one way or another. Praise God, there are spots where the Lord seems to be blessing, but in the general run of things it seems to be the other way, and we desire to see a change, and how are we going to do this? We believe that prayer is one of the best things that we can be occupied with. In order to make things better there are three things hat we can do,

• first of all, and I believe the most important, is that we can pray,

• secondly we can talk about the truth and encourage each other in it (maybe we have to adjust our thinking), but if we talk about the truth in humility and in love towards each other then I am sure the Lord helps us,

• thirdly, when we know the truth then we can be an example of it. This is always a means of making things better.