| I WELCOME with great pleasure and high hopes of great usefulness, The
Greatest Force on Earth: The Power of Intensified Prayer. It is a book that
must deepen the interest of praying people in the sublime exercise of intensive
prayer. We all seem to know much about prayer, but the experience of it
in its powerful effectiveness God-ward and manward is, I fear, greatly lacking.
Dr. Payne has given us a real and authoritative directory in this divine
and spiritual art of praying, insisting continually on the true and only
basis of prayer - the Name and meritorious Mediatorial Work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. In these following pages we shall find also a great incentive
to holiness of life and character, as a means of effectual fervent prayer.
The despondent soul will find great encouragement and inspiration to pray
as these pages are perused.
May God, by His Holy Spirit, awaken us all to a deeper acquaintance with
intensive praying, and make this book a means to stir the slumbering and
self-satisfied, to the only God-appointed means for the fulfilment of His
purposes in the world. We must give time for prayer and praying - not simply
saying prayers.
H. TYDEMAN CHILVERS |