The Soldier Is Summoned To

Furnish Thyself With Arguments From The Promises To Enforce Thy Prayers, And Make Them Prevalent With God. The Promises Are The Ground Of Faith, And Faith, When Strengthened, Will Make Thee Fervent, And Such Fervency Ever Speeds And Returns With Victory Out Of The Field Of Prayer. The Mightier Any Is In The Word, The More Mighty He Will Be In Prayer.

Job's Friends Chose The Right Time To Visit Him, But Took Not The Right Course Of Improving Their Visit; Had They Spent The Time In Praying For Him Which They Did In Hot Disputes With Him, They Would Have Profited Him, And Pleased God More.

What Is Jordan That I Should Wash In It? What Is The Preaching That I Should Attend On It, While I Hear Nothing But What I Knew Before? What Are These Beggarly Elements Of Water, Bread, And Wine? Are Not These The Reasonings Of A Soul That Forgets Who Appoints The Means Of Grace?

And While God Had Work For Paul, He Found Him Friends Both In Court And Prison. Let Persecutors Send Saints To Prison, God Can Provide A Keeper For Their Turn.

Satan Cannot Deny But That Great Wonders Have Been Wrought By Prayer. As The Spirit Of Prayer Goes Up, So His Kingdom Goes Down. Satan's Strategems Against Prayer Are Three. First, If He Can, He Will Keep Thee From Prayer. If That Be Not Feasible, Secondly, He Will Strive To Interrupt Thee In Prayer. And, Thirdly, If That Plot Takes Not, He Will Labour To Hinder The Success Of Thy Prayer.