| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 16 |
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If Monica had not prayed for her son with all persistence of faith and love, the world would never have had Augustine. If Jesus had not made supplication for Peter, that apostle would have fallen away utterly. Who knows what moral failures there are continually in all life’s paths because those who ought to have made intercession were silent? Who can estimate the loss from unoffered prayers?
We need to watch lest we grow selfish in our praying. We should remember that we sin against God when we cease to pray for others. No other duty to our friends can be more solemn or obligatory than this. And to add power to our intercession, we should band together in leagues of twos or threes, and thus come within the scope of the promise that if two shall agree on earth, touching the thing that they ask; it shall be given to them.
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