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Hello, friend.

This is Max Lakato.

Thanks for tuning in.

It's an honor to be with you.

As we study God's word together,

may our time uplift and encourage you.

If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today.

Hi there, friend. Happy New Year. If you're resolving to pray more this year, and shouldn't we all,

this episode is for you. 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's that for a reminder that God listens when we pray?

When Martin Luther's co-worker became ill, the reformer prayed boldly for his 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 prayer

should be granted, that God must grant my prayer if I was henceforth to put faith in his promises.

On another occasion, his good friend Frederick Myconius 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. For this I am praying, this is my will,

and may my will be done because I seek only to glorify the name of God.

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was crossing the Atlantic Ocean by ship when a great storm came upon the sea.

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