{"id":1225,"date":"2015-01-01T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2018-06-07T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:07:00","slug":"kneeling-we-triumph-vol-1-prayer-our-method-not-our-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"Kneeling We Triumph Vol. 1: Prayer\u2014our method not our message."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPrayer is not our message; it is the method of God for the message.\u201d This is the opening statement of the first reading in Kneeling We Triumph Vol. 1. in which many of God\u2019s saints are quoted on the subject of prayer. Edwin and Lillian Harvey, who compiled this book and its companion Kneeling We Triumph Vol. 2, quote from a variety of sources which span centuries and denominations.


\nThe above statement comes from the pen of Armin Gesswein who was a Lutheran pastor who visited the Bethlehem Congregation in Oslo, Norway in the early 1930\u2032s., where what was known as \u201cthe Great Revival\u201d had broken out. He stayed there two years and met his wife-to-be who was converted during the revival. Returning eventually to America, Armin was never the same. He traveled from coast to coast speaking on prayer and revival and is best known as the founder and director of Revival Prayer Fellowship Inc. and Ministers\u2019 Prayer Fellowship. One of Armin\u2019s frequent sayings was \u201cWhen Jesus went back to heaven, all He left behind was a prayer meeting.\u201d
\nArmin was passionate about the importance of prayer in the Christian\u2019s life. He writes:
\n\u201cOur generation has yet to see prayer as a ministry, and to take God at His Word on this subject. It is while we pray that God works, if we can but see Him\u2014not merely before, or after prayer. Our idea is, \u201cLet us pray, and then get on with the work.\u201d But prayer is our real work. We so often think of prayer as a prefix or a suffix to an otherwise busy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The above quotations are taken from Kneeling We Triumph Vol. 1. This book is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPrayer is not our message; it is the method of God for the message.\u201d This is the opening statement of the first reading in Kneeling We Triumph Vol. 1. in which many of God\u2019s saints are quoted on the subject of prayer. Edwin and Lillian Harvey, who compiled this book and its companion Kneeling We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,200],"tags":[404,405,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}