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