The Unanswered Prayer

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16

The Lord's answers to prayer are infinitely perfect, and they will show that often when we were asking for a stone that looked like bread. He was giving us bread that to our short-sightdness looked like stone." - J. Southley.

The Unanswered Prayer

She asked to be made like her Saviour;
He took her right then at her word.
And sent her a heart-crushing burden
Till the depths of her soul were stirred.

She wanted a meek, lowly spirit -
the work He gave answered that cry,
Till some who had once been companions,
With a pitying smile passed her by.

She asked to lean hard on her Saviour,
He took human props quite away,
Till no earthly friend could give comfort,
And she cold do nothing put pray.

She had prayed to be made like the Saviour,
and the burdens He gave her to bear
had been but the great Sculptor's teaching:
To help answer her earnest prayer.

- Publisher Unknown

"The life of fellowship with god cannot be built up in a day. It begins with the habitual reference of all to him, hour by hour. It then moves on to more and longer periods of communion; and it finds its consummation and bliss in days and nights of intercession and waiting." - F. B. Meyer

By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, taken from "Streams in the Desert Volume 2"