The direct power of prayer is, in a sense, omnipotent. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. It secures for the believer the resources of divinity. What battles has it not fought! What victories has it not won! What burdens has it not carried! What wounds has it not healed! What griefs has it not assuaged! It is the wealth of poverty, the refuge of affliction; the strength of weakness; the light of darkness.
It is the oratory that gives power to the pulpit, it is the hand that strikes down Satan, and breaks the fetters of sin; it turns the scales of fate more than the edge of the sword, the craft of statesmen, or the weight of scepters, it has arrested the wings of time, turned aside the very scythe of death, and discharged heaven’s frowning and darkest cloud in a shower of blessings.— GUTHRIE.
