Prayer Without Works
by C. T. Studd

We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. We need as many meetings for action as for prayer–perhaps more. Every orthodox prayer-meeting is opened by God saying to His people, "Go work today; pray that labouers be sent into My vineyard." It is continuedby the Christian’s response, "I go, Lord, whithersoever Thou sendest me, that Thy Name may be hallowed every-where, that Thy Kingdom may come speedily, that Thy Will may be done on earth as in heaven. But if it ends in nobody going anywhere, it had better never have been held at all. Like faith, prayer without works is dead. That is why many PRAYER-MEETINGS might well be styled "much cry, yet little wool." Zerubbabel didn’t only hold prayer-meetings; he went and cut down trees, and started to build. Hence God said, "From this day will I bless thee."