which appeared recently in one of the leading religious weeklies entitled "Prayer, or Fate?""God in His Sovereignty has ordained that human destinies may be changed and molded by the will of man. This is at the heart of the truth that prayer changes things, meaning that God changes things whenTip! THE possibilities of prayer are gauged by faith in God's ability to do. Faith is the one prime condition by which God works."If we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us" (1 John 5:14).

Throughout this blog it has been my primary intention to exalt God the Creator of the heavens and earth and to lower us as His creature or someone that has been created. The general tendency now days, is to magnify people and dishonor and degrade God. On every hand I have found that, when spiritual things are being discussed, the human side and factor is pressed and stressed, and the Divine side, if not altogether ignored, is banished or pushed to the background. This holds true in much of the modern teaching about prayer. In the great majority of the books written and in the sermons preached on prayer the human element fills the scene almost entirely. It is the conditions which we must meet, the promises we must "claim," the things we must do in order to get our requests granted; and God's claims, God's rights, God's glory is completely disregarded.

As a fair example of what is being given out today we need to look at a brief editorial which appeared recently in one of the leading religious weeklies entitled "Prayer, or Fate?""God in His Sovereignty has ordained that human destinies may be changed and molded by the will of man. This is at the heart of the truth that prayer changes things, meaning that God changes things when

reator of the heavens and earth and to lower us as His creature or someone that has been created. The general tendency now days, is to magnify people and dishonor and degrade God. On every hand I have found that, when spiritual things are being discussed, the human side and factor is pressed and stressed, and the Divine side, if not altogether ignored, is banished or pushed to the background. This holds true in much of the modern teaching about prayer. In the great majority of the books written and in the sermons preached on prayer the human element fills the scene almost entirely. It is the conditions which we must meet, the promises we must "claim," the things we must do in order to get our requests granted; and God's claims, God's rights, God's glory is completely disregarded.

As a fair example of what is being given out today we need to look at a brief editorial which appeared recently in one of the leading religious weeklies entitled "Prayer, or Fate?""God in His Sovereignty has ordained that human destinies may be changed and molded by the will of man. This is at the heart of the truth that prayer changes things, meaning that God changes things when

d stressed, and the Divine side, if not altogether ignored, is banished or pushed to the background. This holds true in much of the modern teaching about prayer. In the great majority of the books written and in the sermons preached on prayer the human element fills the scene almost entirely. It is the conditions which we must meet, the promises we must "claim," the things we must do in order to get our requests granted; and God's claims, God's rights, God's glory is completely disregarded.

As a fair example of what is being given out today we need to look at a brief editorial which appeared recently in one of the leading religious weeklies entitled "Prayer, or Fate?""God in His Sovereignty has ordained that human destinies may be changed and molded by the will of man. This is at the heart of the truth that prayer changes things, meaning that God changes things when

t is the conditions which we must meet, the promises we must "claim," the things we must do in order to get our requests granted; and God's claims, God's rights, God's glory is completely disregarded.

As a fair example of what is being given out today we need to look at a brief editorial which appeared recently in one of the leading religious weeklies entitled "Prayer, or Fate?""God in His Sovereignty has ordained that human destinies may be changed and molded by the will of man. This is at the heart of the truth that prayer changes things, meaning that God changes things when

which appeared recently in one of the leading religious weeklies entitled "Prayer, or Fate?""God in His Sovereignty has ordained that human destinies may be changed and molded by the will of man. This is at the heart of the truth that prayer changes things, meaning that God changes things when men pray. Someone has strikingly expressed it this way: 'There are certain things that will happen in a man's life whether he prays or not. There are other things that will happen if he prays; and will not happen if he does not pray.' A Christian worker was impressed by these sentences as he entered a business office and he prayed that the Lord would open the way to speak to some one about Christ, reflecting that things would be changed because he prayed. Then his mind turned to other things and the prayer was forgotten. The opportunity came to speak to the business man upon whom he was calling, but he did not grasp it, and was on his way out when he remembered his prayer of a half hour before, and God's answer. He promptly returned and had a talk with the business man, who, though a church-member, had never in his life been asked whether he was saved. Let us give ourselves to prayer, and open the way for God to change things. Let us beware lest we become virtual fatalists by failing to exercise our God-given wills in praying."

The above illustrates what is being taught today on the subject of prayer, but what is so deplorable is that scarcely a voice is