As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10-11
Some say the deep chasm of the Grand Canyon was formed by a tiny stream of running water slowly eroding away the rock and sediment over time. It wasn’t a tsunami or a great earthquake. Just the simple repetition of a trickle of water working its way over the same space over and over until the rock simply gave way; water that hit the same spot hundreds of thousands and even millions of times.
This is good news for anyone who needs encouragement that your prayers are working. Sometimes we pray large prayers and they come to pass immediately and miraculously; there is another percentage of prayers we pray and nothing appears to have happened. But we can stand on the promise of Isaiah 55 above and know that each of our prayers have impact against the hard spots in life. Every word prayed in faith that has tapped into the Holy Spirit’s power is like a drop of rain, a spirit-packed punch designed to erode away the darkness of this world in people’s lives, in enemy strongholds, and to water dry places. One drop may not topple mountains, but like the game of Jenga, it may move one piece out of the tower that will weaken it, and after so many hits that mountain is bound to fall.
Every prayer has erosion power; every person who gathers another in prayer doubles their impact, and time coupled with persistence is the greatest factor in seeing a change in the landscape of this world. God help us to persist and to never grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap a harvest of righteousness if we do not quit.