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well the truth is you can't delegate prayer now there's some things you can

delegate I can delegate my singing for instance I can have Matt in the crack

and sing my solos for me because I can't sing solos but I can't delegate my

prayer nobody else can do my praying for me unless I'm unconscious then you know

your wife sends for somebody to come pray for if you can't pray for yourself

but normally but it sure you pray and we'll do the practical things you pray and I'll I'll sing you pray and I'll

give you pray and I'll entertain missionaries you pray and I'll teach her

soul or serve you pray and I'll do the practical things that is a that is a

deadly snare if you cannot and will not pray God would accept your sewing if you

can and will not pray God won't accept your singing if you cannot and will not

pray God won't accept your entertaining people God won't accept your money if

you can order will not pray it is prayer that gives power to all these other

things singing giving entertaining teaching

sewing working serving those are all good things

if we set them aflame by prayer but if we try to do them without praying wood

hay and stubble in the day of Jesus Christ

now the true success of any church is going to be prayer we can easily deceive

ourselves but our purity and our power and our spirituality and our holiness

will parallel our prayer if you were to have a graph the businessmen love so

well and politicians if you were to take a graph and put it up here and have two

lines across projects zigzag line one you mark prayer the other one you mark spirituality including purity and power

and holiness spirituality prayer you'd find those two graphs those two lines on

the graph they zigzag a little but say it's parallel each other all

perfectly because Palestine will be dependent upon their I do everything by prayer or whether I think I can do it

now I'd like to say this and I hope it'll be taken right but whether it is

or not I'm going to say it that no one has any scriptural right to teach a

Sunday School class who doesn't do it by prayer said he isn't a praying man he

ought to be a teaching man because no man can teach anything that he isn't he may try to teach some truth but it won't

do him any good and it may not do anybody else any good the teacher ought

to be a praying person no Lunada the head of department in sunday school

unless he's a praying person no one ought to seek to counsel others unless they're praying person no one ought to

serve even in the humblest capacity in any church unless they are praying

person no one ever ought to serve on the board and that's their praying person

nobody who doesn't practice prayer at least in some degree of regularity ever should accept a job in any church a

deacon or elders deacons and elders are picked because their spiritual people

and if they're not praying people are not spiritual people I think it is a

travesty and that prejudice that in some of our alliance churches the women do the praying and the men do the bossing

and then sit around the boardroom and decide how the churches to go and the

women kneel in the prayer rooms and ask God Almighty to bless it won't work no

man ever I should sit and discuss the affairs of the church of holy body

unless he's a praying man if he hasn't prayed he has no right to make decisions

however for us men I'd like to say this in our favor the women have the prayer

bands but there are a lot of men who pray and we don't know they're praying because they don't belong to a prayer

man so let's not divide between those two sexes and say the women do all the bring

they don't at all I know some godly men who do some

praying tools and I have no doubt that we have praying men and plenty of them

in our on our boards in this church but I merely lay down a rule which is good

not only here but it's good all over the world wherever the Church of Christ is found that if you're going to serve you

have to pray or as your service will be wood hay and stubble well everything we

do must be done by prayer if I'm not a praying man my preaching will not do much good so I'm not a praying man my

writing won't do much good they said about hair grew the great Saint John who

will said about him said the reason pear Gru's writings are so consistently and habitually blessed and helped so many

people is the pear group refuses absolutely refuses to write anything

until he is blessed himself says he wants the oil of God on him flowing or

he won't touch a pen I think that's beautiful and they said oh by Andrew Murray was it or George Mueller one of

the two I forgotten which one of them said I will not enter the pulpit fail I

will not enter the pulpit dry said if I am to speak anywhere I wait on God and

see to it that the grace of God is flowing in my soul before I dare to

address anybody old friends if we want this church to be a rich fruitful God

filled Church we're going to have to accept the Holy Ghost philosophy in

everything by prayer we're going to have to accept the Holy Ghost techniques in

everything by prayer we're going to have to accept it as a reinforce from

everybody from the newest convert so the oldest st. in the church in everything by prayer

I promise you my friend your friend and our brother Robert gray and I particular

Cesare motto and will never try to draw our weight around but will in everything

pray pray pray that the power of God and the grace of God and the Holy Spirit of

God may be upon what we're trying to do will you'll go along with this and that

amen