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TOZER DEVOTIONALTue, March 23, 2021Prayer and FaithThe skeptic in the book of Job asked the disdainful question, What is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? The whole tone of the remark shows that it is meant to be rhetorical. The doubter, believing the question could have no answer, tossed it off contemptuously and turned away, like Pilate, without waiting for a reply. But we have an answer. God Himself has supplied it, and the universal consensus of the ages has added an Amen. In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews we have a long list of benefits which faith brings to its possessors: justification, deliverance, fruitfulness, endurance, victory over enemies, courage, strength and even resurrection from the dead. And everything that is attributed to faith might with equal truth be attributed to prayer, for faith and true prayer are like two sides of the same coin. They are inseparable.VerseTherefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.Mark 11:24ThoughtWe are instructed to not only ask in prayer but to believe we have received it. Our "asking" greatly exceeds our "believing." But the two are inseparable parts of the whole.PrayerFather, forgive me for asking without believing. You, Lord, invite me to ask but to do so while believing.