Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. - Luke 18:1 A sign on a church bulletin board in Los Angeles read, “When your knees knock, kneel on them.” How true it is that the knees of the world are knocking today. Our adversary, the devil, is seeing to it that even the knees of the Christian are almost constantly knocking. Can Satan cause one’s knees to fold up from under him because of the weakness in his faith due to knocking knees? Spend an hour upon the knees and let God put strength into them. The hard task and the difficulties you may have to face, the unpleasant circumstances, the disappointments which render the heart, the hopes which are crushed, the sorrows that seem to be constantly abiding, all can be lifted if God is given some of the time He requires of thee on the knees. “The essence of praying is to get out of ourselves so that God can get in.” “If we are thinking so much about our own problems, we may not hear His knock on the door.” The victories won by prayer, by prayer must still be held; The foe retreats, but only when by prayer he is compelled! |
