October 25

From: Daily Sacrifice By: Henry Allan Ironside

James 4:2

“Ye have not, because ye ask not”— James 4:2²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. (James 4:2).

WHY pray at all? It is often said by some who attempt to be wiser than God’s Word, that prayer in the sense of asking of Him is not only unnecessary, but foolish. We are told that prayer changes nothing, and that it is absurd to suppose our asking can in any way affect God’s giving. But Scripture shows us that God has chosen to give, in answer to prayer, many things that He will not give apart from prayer, in order that we may have continual evidence that we have to do with a living God and that our souls may be drawn into communion with Himself.

“To talk with God, no breath is lost;

talk on!

To walk with God, no strength is lost;

walk on!

To toil with God, no time is lost;

toil on!

Little is much, if God is in it;

Man’s busiest day not worth God’s

minute.

Much is little everywhere,

If God the business does not share.

So work with God—then nothing’s lost;