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Have
you ever wondered if your prayers really make a difference?
Most people do at one time or another, especially if they've
been praying long and hard for a breakthrough in a certain situation
but haven't seen the desired result. The next time your faith
in prayer gets tested, consider this:
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a factory, an elongated steel bar weighing 500 lbs (about
225 kg) was suspended by a chain. Near it, an average-size
cork was suspended by a silk thread. “When we come
back to this spot later,” a tour guide told a group
of sightseers, “you will see something that is seemingly
impossible. This cork will have set this steel bar in
motion.” The guide set in motion a mechanism whereby
the cork tapped gently and repeatedly against the steel
bar, which remained motionless. The visitors watched for
a minute or two as the cork struck the iron bar with pendulum-like
regularity, then they moved on. Ten minutes later, the
bar was vibrating slightly, and when the tour group returned
at the end of an hour, the heavy bar was swinging like
the pendulum of a clock. |
So
the next time you feel you aren't exerting a feather's weight
of influence on others through your prayers, remember the
cork. God hears and answers every prayer in His time and as
He knows best, but sometimes you must be patient. Often people
and situations don't change overnight, even after we have
prayed. But if you will be like the cork, your love and prayers
will eventually prevail.
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he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always
to pray, and not to faint; saying, “There was in a city
a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man. And there
was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying,
'Avenge me of my adversary'.
And he would not for a while. But afterward he said within
himself,
'Though I fear not God, nor
regard man, yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge
her, lest by her continual coming she weary me'.”
And the Lord said, “Hear
what the unjust judge says. And shall not God avenge his own
elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though he bear long
with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.”
Luke 18:1-8
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