Prayer

constant watch-care, and He rejoices when they try to please Him. As they pray, He
mingles with their prayers the incense of His righteousness, and offers them to God
as a fragrant sacrifice. In His strength the youth can endure hardness as good soldiers
of the cross. Strengthened with His might, they are enabled to reach the high ideals
before them. The sacrifice made on Calvary is the pledge of their victory.—(Messages
to Young People, 95, 96.)
Our prayers reach God’s throne—By your fervent prayers of faith you can
move the arm that moves the world. You can teach your children to pray effectually
as they kneel by your side. Let your prayers arise to the throne of God, “Spare thy
people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule
over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?”
God is at work. He doeth wonders, and although He is high and lifted up,
prayer can reach His throne. He that is turning and overturning, He that can do
marvelous things, will regard the contrite prayer of faith from the humblest of His
children.—(The Review and Herald, April 23, 1889.)
Our voices reach God’s ear—The word that was spoken to Jesus at the Jordan,
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” embraces humanity. God
spoke to Jesus as our representative. With all our sins and weaknesses, we are not
cast aside as worthless. “He hath made us accepted in the Beloved.” Ephesians 1:6.
The glory that rested upon Christ is a pledge of the love of God for us. It tells us of the
power of prayer,—how the human voice may reach the ear of God, and our petitions
find acceptance in the courts of heaven. By sin, earth was cut off from heaven, and
alienated from its communion; but Jesus has connected it again with the sphere of
glory. His love has encircled man, and reached the highest heaven. The light which
fell from the open portals upon the head of our Saviour will fall upon us as we pray
for help to resist temptation. The voice which spoke to Jesus says to every
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