It
is impossible to study the Bible, and especially the New Testament part of it, without being convinced that prayer is the means whereby men may reach out for and receive the aid of Deity.
When
Moses felt afraid to undertake the work God had given him to do, because he recognized his own inadequacy, he asked God whom He would send with him to help him.
The
student of the New Testment must needs be impressed with the frequency with which Jesus withdrew from the crowd, sometimes even from the immediate society of his disciples, to commune with God, and thereby to refresh himself at the infinite fountain of divine inspiration.
In
the illuminating dissertation on faith which appears in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, many illustrations are given of a happy outcome from the exercise of that quality.
How
often have the weary and the sick waited patiently on God to lift the burden from them! And how often have many of them as they waited had their faith strengthened by the words of the Psalmist: "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord;" or those of Isaiah: "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
