The Most Powerful Weapon — Earnest Prayer

Billy Graham

“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.”
—Colossians 4:2, NKJV

Today we have learned to harness the power of the atom, but very few of us have learned how to develop fully the power of prayer. We have not yet learned that a person can be more powerful on his or her knees than behind the most powerful weapons ever developed.

We have not learned that a nation is more powerful when it unites in earnest prayer to God than when its resources are channeled into weapons. We have not discovered that the answer to our problems can be through contact with the living God.

Weapons by themselves will not keep us safe or solve the world’s problems. Our basic problems are spiritual in nature, and only spiritual solutions will solve them. That is why prayer is so vital, for only God can change the human heart.

Who knows what might happen if millions of believers around the world availed themselves of the greatest privilege this side of Heaven—the privilege of intercessory prayer? Will you be one of them?

How often do we view a situation as helpless, throw up our hands, and walk away? Or we say, “All we can do now is pray.” Prayer should be our first line of defense, not a last resort!