PRAY AUDACIOUS PRAYER
PRAY AUDACIOUS PRAYERS by Max Lucado Encouraging Words Podcast Joshua 10 There is a remarkable story in Joshua chapter 10. While in battle the Hebrews needed more daylight. Joshua asks God to stop the sun from setting and God does. Verse 14 says God took orders from a human voice. How is that for a reminder that God listens when we pray? When Martin Luther's co worker became ill,the reformer prayed boldly for this healing. He wrote: I besought the Almighty with great vigor, I attacked him with his own weapons, quoting from Scripture all the promises I could remember that my prayers should be granted, that God must grant my prayer if I was hanceforth to put faith in his promises. One another occasion his good friend Frederick Myconeous was sick. Luther wrote to him, I command you in the name of God to live, because I still have need of thee in the reforming work of the Church. The Lord will never let me hear that thou art dead, but will permit thee to survive me; ...