The book by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, entitled How They Prayed Volume 3, stresses the role of prayer in revivals, widespread and local, and the emphasis many pastors and missionaries placed on private and public prayer. The following quotations from missionaries to Africa and India encourage us to give communion with God top priority in our service for Christ:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe danger of our day is devotion to duty to the neglect of personal communion. We will do far more and far better if we carefully guard against hindering our times of communion with Him.
\n\u201cAs well try to draw water out of a dry well as to try to carry on Christian service without drawing present life from the Living Vine.
\u201cThe secret of failure everywhere is the neglect of private communion with God. India lives too public a life to have a deep Christianity. And Indian Christians will have to alter many of their customs before they get deeper.\u201d \u201cI have been more than usually drawn out in earnest prayer of late\u2015for the expedition\u2015for my family\u2015the fear lest ___\u2019s misrepresentation may injure the cause of Christ\u2015the hope that I may be permitted to open this dark land to the blessed Gospel. I have cast all before my God. Good Lord, have mercy upon me. Leave me not, nor forsake me. He has guided well in time past. I commit my way to Him for the future. All I have received has come from Him. Will He be pleased in mercy to use me for His glory? I have prayed for this, and Jesus Himself said, \u2018Ask, and ye shall receive,\u2019 and a host of statements to the same effect. \u201cWhat will it cost?\u201d the people asked \u201cThree hundred at least for evangelists; \u201cWhat will it cost?\u201d List to Spirit\u2019s pleas: \u201cThe rough made smooth, the crooked straight; If revival comes we will have to pay These quotations have been taken from How They Prayed Volume Three which is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n The book by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, entitled How They Prayed Volume 3, stresses the role of prayer in revivals, widespread and local, and the emphasis many pastors and missionaries placed on private and public prayer. The following quotations from missionaries to Africa and India encourage us to give communion with God top priority in our service for Christ:<\/p>\n \u201cThe danger of our day is devotion to duty to the neglect of personal communion. We will do far more and far better if we carefully guard against hindering our times of communion with Him. \u201cThe secret of failure everywhere is the neglect of private communion with God. India lives too public a life to have a deep Christianity. And Indian Christians will have to alter many of their customs before they get deeper.\u201d \u201cI have been more than usually drawn out in earnest prayer of late\u2015for the expedition\u2015for my family\u2015the fear lest ___\u2019s misrepresentation may injure the cause of Christ\u2015the hope that I may be permitted to open this dark land to the blessed Gospel. I have cast all before my God. Good Lord, have mercy upon me. Leave me not, nor forsake me. He has guided well in time past. I commit my way to Him for the future. All I have received has come from Him. Will He be pleased in mercy to use me for His glory? I have prayed for this, and Jesus Himself said, \u2018Ask, and ye shall receive,\u2019 and a host of statements to the same effect. \u201cWhat will it cost?\u201d the people asked \u201cThree hundred at least for evangelists; \u201cWhat will it cost?\u201d List to Spirit\u2019s pleas: \u201cThe rough made smooth, the crooked straight; If revival comes we will have to pay These quotations have been taken from How They Prayed Volume Three which is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n
\nAnd again: \u201cIt is better to do a little well and prayerfully than to fulfill a whole world of engagements with undue haste and rush.\u201d
\n\u2013Walker of Tinevelly. (Used by permission)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2013David. Livingstone<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAs they planned the fall campaign;
\nWhile in past exploits they calmly basked,
\nLooking only for outside gain.<\/p>\n
\nTwenty for heat and light.
\nAnd remember the music enthusiasts.\u201d
\nWhat a price for such a small fight.<\/p>\n
\nPraying, fasting, and tears.
\nEach member humbled on bended knees,
\nConfessing the faults of years.<\/p>\n
\nRecourse to repentance\u2019s fruit.
\nThe Breath of God on all who wait;
\nHealing for blind, deaf, and mute.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn heavenly currency.
\nNot a part or e\u2019en half, but ALL we must lay
\nAt His feet! Is it YOUR plea?
\n\u2015Floyd Banker. Used by permission as published in the Wesleyan Methodist.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cAs well try to draw water out of a dry well as to try to carry on Christian service without drawing present life from the Living Vine.
\n\u201cChristian, beware! Declension is always a slow leak, never a blowout. Flatness in spiritual living and serving is the result of a gradual slipping away from God in prayer and Bible Study, a neglecting of the means of grace.\u201d
\n\u201c\u2018He wondered that there was no intercessor.\u2019
\n\u201c\u2018He marveled because of their unbelief.\u2019
\n\u201cTwo things that cause God to wonder now will be our greatest marvel by and by: 1. That we did not pray more. 2. That we did not trust more. He marvels now\u2015we shall marvel when we see Him. The most marvelous thing of today is the unbelief of the Christians.\u201d
\n\u2013Rowland Bingham<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAnd again: \u201cIt is better to do a little well and prayerfully than to fulfill a whole world of engagements with undue haste and rush.\u201d
\n\u2013Walker of Tinevelly. (Used by permission)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2013David. Livingstone<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAs they planned the fall campaign;
\nWhile in past exploits they calmly basked,
\nLooking only for outside gain.<\/p>\n
\nTwenty for heat and light.
\nAnd remember the music enthusiasts.\u201d
\nWhat a price for such a small fight.<\/p>\n
\nPraying, fasting, and tears.
\nEach member humbled on bended knees,
\nConfessing the faults of years.<\/p>\n
\nRecourse to repentance\u2019s fruit.
\nThe Breath of God on all who wait;
\nHealing for blind, deaf, and mute.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn heavenly currency.
\nNot a part or e\u2019en half, but ALL we must lay
\nAt His feet! Is it YOUR plea?
\n\u2015Floyd Banker. Used by permission as published in the Wesleyan Methodist.<\/em><\/p>\n