All to Him I Owe

I would like to share with you an encouraging quote for those who are struggling to pray for someone who is struggling spiritually.  James McConkey in his book, “Prayer”  states the following in the format of God speaking to us:

“My child you know not how to convict of sin, but I, who work as you pray, can bow down that soul in a very agony of conviction. You know not when to woo, when to reprove, but I who work as you ask, know just when to pour in the balm of love, and when to let fall the sharp quick blow of needed judgment. You cannot follow a soul in daily unbroken pursuit, for you are finite and must eat, rest, and sleep, but I who do as you ask, follow that soul day and night with sleepless vigilance, through every second of his existence, now comforting, now troubling; now giving darkness, now light; now sending prosperity, now adversity; now using the knife, now the healing balm; chastening, troubling, bereaving, blessing; bending, breaking, making, yea I can do all things needful to be done to bring that wanderer to himself and cause him to cry, ‘I will arise and go unto my Father’.“