If I shut up Heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:13–14
Words & Music: James A. Brown, in The Lighthouse in Gospel Song, edited by John D. Patton (Birmingham, Alabama: J. D. Patton, 1910) (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Brown (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Pray, pray, in the old-time way,
Come, Christians, gather round;
Pray, pray as they used to pray,
When the power of God came down.
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Pray, pray, the only way
To reach the saints’ high ground;
Pray, pray, the prayer of faith
Will bring God’s blessings down.
Pray, pray where two or three
Are gathered in His name;
Pray, pray, for Jesus said,
I am in the midst of them.
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Pray, pray and seek His face,
And turn from all your sin;
Pray, pray for grace to go
And bring the wanderers in.
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Pray, pray, for souls are lost,
Their blood is on our hands;
Pray, pray even now their feet
Are on death’s sinking sand.
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Pray, pray, O sinner, pray,
Your heart in guilt bowed down;
Pray, pray, for God will hear,
He says, I will be found.
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