“Look upward, and let us weep! O God, You have given us a mighty weapon and we have permitted it to rust.”

This cry of Charles Spurgeon is mine. Is it yours? How do we respond to a renewed call on our lives to be a people of prayers!

One great example, Daniel, as a young man, was willing to be cast to carnivores rather than cease to pray. As an old man, he intensified, not relaxed as a prayer-warrior. I imagine him, hunched over Jeremiah’s words, squinting as he reads:

“For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.”

I picture Daniel groaning as he knew that the call was for him. In burlap and soot, he “set his face” toward God. Then his cry to God rang out, climaxing with, “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name!”

Let us, like Daniel respond to God’s written word and allow it to propel us to the Prayer Tower battle-ground as well as to our closets.