Powerful Prayer
It is nice to hear Martin Luther state that my prayers as I am poor and oppressed create a beacon, a warning cry, all through Heaven that God and His Holy Angels must focus upon.
Of the Power of Prayer.
"The prayer of the heart, said Luther, and the sighs of the poor and oppressed, do make such an alarum and cry in heaven, that God and all the angels must hear the same. O, our Lord God, hath a sharp listening ear."
Martin Luther. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
One would think people would be a great deal nicer to me from the start, but it does translate that all do figure it out and start fleeing after pissing on me.
Of the Sighing of the Heart
"When Moses, with the children of Israel, came to the Red Sea, then he cried with trembling and quaking, yet he opened not his mouth, neither was his voice heard on earth by the people: doubtless, said Luther, he cried and sighed in his heart, and said, “Ah, Lord God! what course shall I now take? Which way shall I now turn myself? How am I come to this strait? No help nor counsel can save us: before us is the sea; behind us are our enemies the Egyptians; on both sides high and huge mountains; I am the cause that all this people shall now be destroyed,” etc.
Then answered God, and said, “Wherefore criest thou unto me?” As if God should say, “What an alarum, a shrieking, and a loud crying dost thou make, that the whole heavens must ring therewith!” etc. But, alas! said Luther, we read such examples as dead letters; human reason is not able to search this passage out.
The way through the Red Sea is full as broad, and wider far (if not further than Wittenberg lieth from Coburg, that is thirty Dutch miles, 120 English at least: doubtless the people were constrained in the night season to rest, to bait and eat therein; for six hundred thousand men, besides women and children, would require a good time to pass through, although they went one hundred and fifty in rank and file."
Martin Luther. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
The scream of the innocent on earth incessantly from the heart is heard by God in Heaven. Without voice it is still heard for God hears all emotions and does react to those emotions as God is Love, and Love is emotion. God is Emotion.
"It is impossible that God should not hear the prayers which with faith are made in Christ, although God giveth not according to the measure, manner, and time which we dictate unto him; he will not be tied. In such sort dealt God with the mother of St. Austin. She prayed to God that her son Austin might be converted, but, as yet, it would not be; then she ran to the learned, entreating them to persuade and advise him thereunto.
At last, she propounded unto him a marriage with a Christian virgin, that thereby he might be drawn back, and brought to the Christian faith; but all would not do as yet. But when our Lord God came thereto, he came to purpose, and made of him such an Austin, that he became a great light to the Church.
St. James saith, “Pray one for another, for the prayer of the righteous availeth much,” etc. Prayer, said Luther, is a powerful thing; for God hath bound and tied himself thereunto. Christ taught the Lord’s Prayer according to the manner of the Jews—that is, he directed it only to the Father; whereas they that pray in the same manner, are heard for the Son’s sake. This was done because Christ would not be praised before his death."
Martin Luther. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
Of the Power of Prayer.
"As the King of Persia, said Luther, laid siege to the city Nasili, the bishop that was therein saw that he was too weak (by man’s help) to defend the city against so mighty a king; wherefore he went upon the wall, lifted up his hands to Heaven, and prayed, in the sight of his enemies. Whereupon immediately the eyes of the horses in the whole army in such sort were pestered with an innumerable multitude of flies stinging them, that with their riders they ran away, and so raised the siege, whereby the city was preserved. In such a manner could God divert the wicked enterprises of the Papists against us, if we would diligently pray."
Martin Luther. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
That a True Christian Prayeth Always.
"The prayers of upright Christians are without ceasing; though they pray not always with their mouth, yet their hearts do pray continually, sleeping and waking; for the sigh of a true Christian is a prayer. As the Psalm saith, “Because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will up, saith the Lord,” etc. In like manner a true Christian always carrieth the cross, though he not always feel it.
Martin Luther. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
There is nothing on this earth nor in Heaven above which is beyond God's hearing, knowing nor taking on. God has attribute in proclaiming His Almight Power in revealing Himself Perfected in human weakness.
God hears the screams of His innocents. God always reckons and rectifies, as that is what the Great Tribulation is all about in settling the accounts.
"No one can hide from God. All any person can do is hide in the blood of Christ from the wrath of God."
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