Prayer Changes Things

by S.D. Gordon

Unknown Binding

About the author

Samuel Dickey Gordon was a widely traveled speaker in high demand. A prolific author, he wrote more than 25 devotional books. He also traveled to Europe and Asia as a missionary. A plain man, controlled by a strong desire to edify God's people, he won the respect of the learned and at the same time the affection of the simple.

Reviews

[Jonathan Laboy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has many points I often overlooked in prayer. It's based on three lectures given annually to a missionary group (I would the lectures reckon worth the annual occasion) and it's basis is the power of prayer, the need of prayer, and the need for obedience. Prayer continues to be the important part of Christian Life if you indeed come to terms with the truth the Master said about who we are and who He is, what He has done and what it entails, and the promise of giving to us IF we ask it in His name. Gordon uses scripture to teach us how we lost the "mastery" over the world through disobedience, how Jesus obtained dominion over all things through His obedience, and how all authority is given to Him in the earth now that His obedience has reclaimed all things and since all things are given to Him we are to be bold and trust in Him and His power to claim to Himself through His victory. He calls us now to obtain victory too by obeying Him. He shares two missionary experiences which I will never forget: about a muslim woman converted and a desolate boy who represents the nations waiting for the Gospel to reach them. Many good things are mentioned in these lectures and the one thing which stuck with me the most in the beginning was the imagination of what a man would regret after being taken to the Kingdom (speaking on earthly terms) One thing would be not asking enough: beggarly askers that we were having the doors of the Kingdom open and the bounty of Christ laid bare we only asked for so little while we had the chance to pray and ask "Father!" In Jesus' Name let us go forth! The second thing would be the lack of trust: when we pray we must not look on our faith "feeble as it may be" but on God and who He is, and our God is worthy of all faith. All in all this book is great and although tiny in content has great material. I would recommend to people who yet struggle with their prayer life and who'd like an uplifting and adequate view of the highest need of praying.