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The Priority of Prayer
Dr. BOB WALDRON, Executive Director

The church's greatest advances have been the result of prayer. God desires the prayers of His children and faithfully answers them. James indicated that one reason Christians have so little of the divine blessing is because they do not ask. Wesley Duewel commented, God has tried to teach us that if we are willing to get along with minimum prayer He will send minimal blessings."

Our greatest need today is not more congregations, but more congregations that pray. What we really need is not more money to finance our programs but more urgent and vital praying. How can we increase our harvest? How can we catch a vision of God's white fields and keep up with His open doors? There is but one answer-prayer.

Pray that the Lord will raise up evangelists for receptive fields.
Pray that congregations will support their missionaries with loving respect as well as finances.
Pray that knees will bow and tongues confess that Jesus Christ alone is Lord.

The kind of prayer we need is not simply the habitual roll call of the sick, nor the two-minute drill of repetitious phrases heard so often in our assemblies. What is urgent in the church today is the kind of prayer that seeks the face of God. We need agonizing, closet praying-all night vigils of sweetness in the presence of our Father.