Where there is no “moral gravity” – that is, no force that draws us to the center – there is spiritual weightlessness. We float on feelings that will carry us where we never meant to go; we bubble with emotional experiences that we often take for spiritual ones; and we are puffed up with pride. Instead of seriousness, there is foolishness. Instead of gravity, flippancy. Sentimentality takes the place of theology. Our reference point will never serve to keep our feet on solid rock, for our reference point, until we answer God’s call, is merely ourselves. We cannot possibly tell which end is up. Paul calls them fools who “…measure themselves by themselves, to find in themselves their own standard of comparison!”
Elisabeth Elliot

Prayer Changes Things

Prayer Changes Things

PRAYER CHANGES THINGS

Skies seemed dark to me one morning,

And my thoughts were tinged with gloom; But my eye fell on a motto

That was hanging in the room.
Silvery letters on blue backround,

Heavenly thought on shining wings,
Brought me hope in one brief message.

It was this, “Prayer Changes Things.”

This surround like iron mountains,

Things that make a thorny way,
Things that curtain clouds with doubting,

Things that make it hard to pray.
Dreadful things that never happen

Dog our steps, but faith still sings In our ears this golden message,

“Don’t forget: “Prayer Changes Things.”

We have seen some things prayer changes;

Greater things we yet may see.
When the Hebrews came from Egypt

Prayer made pathways through the sea. In the hot and dusty desert

Moses prayed, and cooling springs
Gushed out from their rocky prisons,

Just because “Prayer Changes Things.”

We should be so very careful

Lest some thin should change our prayers. Pleasing things, like lotus perfumes,

Steal in on us unawares,
Till we loiter in a dreamland –

Slaves, but thinking we are kings.
There’s a golden key to freedom;

It is this, “Prayer Changes Things.”

When we think that our surroundings

Keep us from the heavenly way
Or that wealth or change will help us

In some distant place or day,
Let’s remember ’tis our Savior,

Not environment, that brings
Strength and blessings, peace and pleasure.

Here’s the way, “Prayer Changes Things.”

“Prepare to meet thy God” (Amos 4:12). “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near” (Isa. 55:6) Humble yourself and pray, as the publican, “God be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13). Remember, Prayer Changes Things!

Seek His face, and turn from your wicked way. He will have mercy on you. Yes, He will abundantly pardon. Praise the Lord! “Thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul” (Deut. 4:29). “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1:9). Yes, cleansing through the precious blood makes you a new person in Christ Jesus.

So seek the Lord today. Boast not of tomorrow. Let Jesus come into your heart today. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (II Cor. 6:2).

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