Most people do at one time or another, especially if they've been praying long and hard for a breakthrough in a certain situation but haven't seen the desired result. The next time your faith in prayer gets tested, consider this:
In a factory, an elongated steel bar weighing 500 lbs (about 225 kg) was suspended by a chain. Near it, an average-size cork was suspended by a silk thread. “When we come back to this spot later,” a tour guide told a group of sightseers, “you will see something that is seemingly impossible. This cork will have set this steel bar in motion.”
The guide set in motion a mechanism whereby the cork tapped gently and repeatedly against the steel bar, which remained motionless. The visitors watched for a minute or two as the cork struck the iron bar with pendulum-like regularity, then they moved on.
Ten minutes later, the bar was vibrating slightly, and when the tour group returned at the end of an hour, the heavy bar was swinging like the pendulum of a clock.
So the next time you feel you aren't exerting a feather's weight of influence on others through your prayers, remember the cork. God hears and answers every prayer in His time and as He knows best, but sometimes you must be patient.
Often people and situations don't change overnight, even after we have prayed. But if you will be like the cork, your love and prayers will eventually prevail.
Prayer Is So Simple . . .
It is like quietly opening a door
And slipping into the very presence of God
There in the stillness
To listen to His voice
Perhaps to petition
Or only to listen
It matters not
Just to be there
In His presence
Is prayer
(Author: unknown)
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