Article November 12, 1990 Issue

Prayer power

Prayer does more than let us commune with God. It lets us learn how He has made us in His likeness.

Erna Correll

What can we possibly do when our world seems to cave in, when things look so hopeless that we feel we're at the end of our wits? The darkest hour can become a turning point in our life, filled with the light of this divine promise from Revelation: "Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." To me, this "open door" illustrates the power of prayer, available to everyone.

Our turning to God in prayer moves thought away from our own personal troubles and focuses it on the ever-presence of infinite, incorporeal Spirit and on our actual relation to this omnipresent Life.

Christ Jesus was so sure that God was with him that he confidently faced every situation as its master. He frequently withdrew to pray. Strengthened by such communion, he returned to the people, ready to heal and restore those in need—and in the process to defy the conventional wisdom, then and now, that judges matter (with its diseases, limitations, and faults) to be unalterably real. The Master's healing works proved the truth of his words "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing."

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