DARE TO TRAVAIL! By 'DON OKPOMBOR
WHEN WE TRAVAIL WE SHALL PREVAIL! Quite often, I hear someone say, “The Church is not what I came to meet some years ago.” Well, whatever the Church was, men made it, and whatever the Church is today, men make it. Men? Yes, men! The fire you saw the years past was brought about by some praying men. If the fire must fall again, there must be such praying men again. In Colossians 4:12 we read, “ Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. ” If the Church must 'stand perfect' in orderliness, holiness, power, and prosperity, there must also be some fervent-prayer-laboring Epaphrases. A story is related by T. Dewitt Talmage, of an outbreak of revival in a church because some men dared to travail in the secret place: “In the winter of 1875 we were worshipping in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. We had great audiences but I was oppressed by the