Prayer

Spirit, he studied the scrolls of the prophets. By day and by night, Christ was his
study, his meditation, until mind and heart and soul were filled with the glorious
vision.
He looked upon the King in His beauty, and self was lost sight of. He beheld
the majesty of holiness and knew himself to be inefficient and unworthy. It was
God’s message that he was to declare. It was in God’s power and His righteousness
that he was to stand. He was ready to go forth as Heaven’s messenger, unawed by
the human, because he had looked upon the Divine. He could stand fearless in the
presence of earthly monarchs because with trembling he had bowed before the King
of kings.—(Testimonies for the Church 8:331, 332.)
PETER
God answered Peter’s prayer to raise dorcas to life.—The apostle’s heart was
touched with sympathy as he beheld their sorrow. Then, directing that the weeping
friends be sent from the room, he kneeled down and prayed fervently to God to restore
Dorcas to life and health. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise. And she
opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.” Dorcas had been of great
service to the church, and God saw fit to bring her back from the land of the enemy,
that her skill and energy might still be a blessing to others, and also that by this
manifestation of His power the cause of Christ might be strengthened.—(The Acts of
the Apostles, 132.)
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