Frank is a prayer warrior. I owe much to the hours He has spent before the Lord in prayer for me and my family.
If you think of Frank, please remember to pray for him--and for Carolyn and the extended family.
After seeing him this morning, I was reminded of another segment from Horatius Bonar's True Revival and the Men God Uses entitled "Men of Prayer":
It is true that they laboured much, visited much, studied much, but they also prayed much. In this they abounded. They were much alone with God, replenishing their own souls out of the living fountain that out of them might flow to their people rivers of living water. In our day there is doubtless among many a grievous mistake upon this point. Some who are really seeking to feed the flock, and to save souls, are led to exhaust their energies upon external duties and labours, overlooking the absolute necessity of enriching, ripening, filling, elevating their own souls by prayer and fasting. On this account there is much time wasted and labour thrown away. A single word, coming fresh from lips that have been kindled into heavenly warmth, by near fellowship with God, will avail more than a thousand others.Did Christ's faithful ministers act more on this principle, they would soon learn what an increased fruitfulness and power are thereby imparted to all their labours. Were more of each returning Saturday spent in fellowship with God, in solemn intercession for the people, in humiliation for sin, and supplication for the outpouring of the Spirit our Sabbaths would be far more blest, our sermons would be far more successful, our faces would shine as did the face of Moses, a more solemn awe and reverence would be over all our assemblies, and there would be fewer complaints of labouring in vain, or spending strength for nought. What might be lost in elaborate composition, or critical exactness of style or argument, would be far more than compensated for by the "double portion of the Spirit" we might then expect to receive.
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I was so encouraged by this Jeremy! Thanks for reading a book I probably wouldn't make it all the way through and posting the "good parts"! I think of Paul Olson as the prayer warrior in our little assembly up north and often wonder if there is anyone to take his place? Will this generation have those faithful ones that lift us so often and so fervently to our Lord in Prayer?! I pray that I would become one who is often in communication with my Saviour!
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