02.17. Chapter 17. Personal Experience

Personal Experience

It should be stated that the writer can personally guarantee every one of the incidents of answered prayer before given. More striking examples could doubtless have been gathered from published sources, but the course followed has been taken advisedly, so that (1) the facts may be unquestioned and recent; and (2) that these pages may add somewhat to the ever-increasing volume of testimony to the faithfulness of God and the efficacy of prayer. And he has ventured to use some personal experiences, principally that every reader, however humble and consciously unworthy, may be emboldened freely to use the name of the Lord Jesus, and expect and secure the interposition of God. For none who shall pray will exceed in utter unworthiness him who here magnifies God for His mercy and faithfulness, unreservedly adopting as his own the words of Jacob : "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast showed unto Thy servant."3 and if such things as are before set down may be gleaned from the experience and observation of but one believer, what extraordinary power must needs reside in the whole church of God by means of supplication!