PRAY LIKE NASH

The great American evangelist Charles Finney, a prominent figure in America's Second Great Awakening never counted on his theology, messages, preaching style, logic, or methods to save souls. He looked rather to mighty prayer and the resulting powerful work of the Holy Spirit to sweep in with great conviction on his audience. Daniel Nash is the prayer warrior who accompanied Finney.
When God would direct where a meeting was to be held, Daniel Nash would slip quietly into town and seek to get two or three people to enter into prayer with him. Together they would begin to pray fervently for God to move in the community.
Often Nash would not attend the meetings, and while Finney was preaching Nash was praying for the Spirit's outpouring upon him. Finney stated, "I did the preaching altogether, and brother Nash gave himself up almost continually to prayer." Often while Finney preached to the multitudes, Nash in some adjoining house would be upon his face in an agony of prayer.
This may well explain why 80 percent of those converted in his meetings stood the test of time. Years later D.L. Moody followed a similar pattern but without such a prayer warrior as Nash. He saw perhaps 50 percent of his converts last. Today, a well known evangelist said that he would be delighted if 20 percent of his converts were genuinely converted. In this day with many programs but little prayer, with much organizing but little agonizing, we would be wise to learn lessons from the past. We can learn those lessons from a man such as Daniel Nash.

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