Through Prayer!

Transcribed excerpts from the sermon "Voices" by Rev. Lee Stoneking

"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Matthew 21:22

"I am convinced, thoroughly convinced, that through prayer there is no problem that can't be solved. There is no sickness that can't be healed. There is no burden that can't be lifted. There is no storm that can't be weathered. There is no motive that can't be uncovered. There is no devastation that can't be relieved. There is no sorrow that can't be erased. There is no poverty cycle that cannot be broken. There is no sinner that can't be saved. There is no perishing that can't be rescued. There is no fallen that can't be lifted. There is no hurt that cannot be removed. There is no difference that cannot be dissolved. There is no hindrance that can't be shaken. There is no limitation that cannot be assaulted.


There is no mourning that cannot be comforted. There are no ashes that cannot become beauty. There is no heaviness that can't be covered with the garment of praise. There is no thirst that can't be quenched. There is no hunger that can't be filled. There is no dry ground that can't be flooded. There is no desert that can't blossom. There is no congregation that can't be revived. There is no preacher that can't be unctionized. There are no church pews that can't be filled. There is no church board that cannot become one. There is no community that can't be Christianized. There is no nation that cannot be transfigured.


There is nothing, there is nothing, there is nothing, there is nothing, that God cannot do by prayer. If we will pray, we can change anything because inside of us there is a power that reaches out to God and never returns empty. It's like a hand; it's like a hand; it's like a voice ...You can throw your hands in the air; you can lift your voice to God and He will answer by fire!...But in spite of all I have just recited for you, you have to somewhere decide, on an individual basis, how much of Jesus you want? And how much of yourself you are willing to give? Your entire future in God depends on the answers that you give to those two questions. How much of Jesus do I really want? How much of myself am I willing to give?