The Power of Prayer

Here is a majestic passage from the venerated Chrysostom:  “The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.  Prayer is an all-sufficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm.  It is the root, the fountain, the mother, of a thousand blessings.”  Are Chrysostom’s words mere rhetoric, to make a commonplace thing look superlative?  The Bible knows nothing of such cunning.

Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries, pg.151