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The gold is going to be tried to

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our devotional life.

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The silver, what is the silver?

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I guess you can interpret it different ways.

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I like to interpret it this way.

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The book of Proverbs says the tongue of

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the just is as choice silver.

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Yeah, every idle word you've spoken, even since

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you were saved, God has a kind of,

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you know, he doesn't need a tape recorder,

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but he has an eternal record of it.

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You know the gossip, the slander, the criticism,

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the prejudice.

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You know, when somebody upset you and instead

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of being quiet, you spilled out just what

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was on your heart at that moment.

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Can you think of all those awesome words?

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Can you think of all the words we've

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preached to thousands of people over the years?

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And we're going to answer and the fire

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is going to be put to them?

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Well, will they be hay and stubble or

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will they abide the fire?

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The fire shall try every believer's work.

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Silver, gold, precious stone.

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What are the precious stones?

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Well, when I read that, I think of

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the breastplate that was on the priest, the

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priest in the Old Testament.

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It was divided into twelve.

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Each stone was a different stone.

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Each stone had the name of a tribe

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on it.

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And he went into the holy place to

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pray with a breastplate on him.

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Oh, well, how do you handle this?

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How do you handle this?

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You know why the world is poor and

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sick outside?

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Because we really don't know how to pray,

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that's why.

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Because we're satisfied we've left our lousy living

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and we don't drink and lust and damn

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ourselves every day.

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And now we're Christians and we're so content

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and so happy and so satisfied.

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I've said it many times.

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I said again this morning that no man

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is greater than his prayer life.

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I don't care about his organization and his,

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these boys all have a, what is it,

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a mailing list.

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Doesn't worry me.

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Let me live with a man a while

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and share his prayer life and I'll tell

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you how tall I think he is or

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how majestic I think he is in God.

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Supposing I could say to Gabriel this morning,

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Gabriel, hand this book down.

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Well, let's preview eternity.

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Here we are, millions of people, all the

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prayer bodies.

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America has produced some of the greatest.

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Praying Payson of Portland had a floor harder

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than that, and at the side of his

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bed when he knelt he used to pray

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and pray and pray.

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And when they washed his body for burial

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he had great big hooves on his knees

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like camels, like history says that James in

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the Bible had camel's knees, at least tradition

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says that.

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Well, it's a living fact that Payson had

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them.

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And when they were washing him somebody said,

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what, abnormal knees, they're calloused, they're heavy with

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calluses.

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Yeah, because he used to pray at the

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side of his bed with energy.

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And in that hard floor he wore two

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grooves like that, about six or seven inches

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long where he used to pray and make

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intercession.

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Praying Payson of Portland.

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Many of you can buy the book if

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you haven't read it.

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I think it's in the book still there,

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Praying Hyde, John Hyde.

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I met somebody who used to hear him

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pray and told me what an amazing thing

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it was to hear him pray in India.

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You know, we think we've got a message,

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you've got to drop it here and run

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there and catch a plane here and go

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there and...

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No, no, that's not the greatest ministry.

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It's good, God has ordained it, but the

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greatest ministry I'm sure is the ministry of

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intercession.

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Let's ask Gabriel to hand the book down.

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Let's look at all the apostles and all

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the saints of all the ages.

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There's Phinney, look, there's Phinney with his amazing

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revival.

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There's William Boole, the founder of the Salvation

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Army.

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There's John Wesley.

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Here are all the great heroic figures we've

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all read about them, and here they are

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all watching while the book is handed down.

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And somebody's going to read the record.

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Would you volunteer and say, well, I'd be

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happy if you read my record to this

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multitude?

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Supposing I say, Gabriel, hand me the record

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for 1724.

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And I open the book there, I read

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1724.

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I go down the B's, David Braynard, just

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a young American, died at the age of

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28.

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All he possessed was a cowhide that he

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had tanned and he wrapped himself in it

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and put a rope around him and he

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rode over the Susquehanna River there and he

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followed the Indians and he had tuberculosis and

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he says, I got up this morning and

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the Indians were still committing adultery there and

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still drinking there and still beating their tom

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-toms and still shouting like hell itself.

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He came out of the teepee he was

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sharing and he said there was nowhere to

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pray.

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So I went out in the forest and

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he said, Ann Nelson, the snow was up

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to my chin and it was a half

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hour after sunrise.

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He weighed about 95 pounds.

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No, he didn't have a heater with him

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or anything else.

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He was just there in the frigid snow

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half an hour after sunrise and he said,

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I did so wrestle in prayer, he says

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in his archaic English, I wrestled in prayer

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for about 12 hours.

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The sun was setting and then I could

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only touch the snow with the tips of

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my fingers.

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The snow was up to his chin when

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he started praying and he makes intercession in

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a little body that weighed 90 pounds until

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the sweat of his body melted the snow.

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Well, God pity us, we can't get folk

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to our churches and we've got velvet cushions

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on the seats and we've got nice stuff

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on the floor so our darling little knees

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won't get hurt and boy, we can't get,

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we can't muster a corporal's guard to pray

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in the average church.

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Praying patron of Portland, John Hyde, the great

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intercessor, David Brainerd, when God opens that book

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of intercession, when he puts the fire to

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their prayer life, their devotional life, I'll tell

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you what, there'll be nothing lost.

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It won't be wood, it won't be hay,

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it won't be stubble.

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I discovered this poem just yesterday.

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It's called His Plan for Me.

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I didn't have time to memorize it.

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When I stand at the judgment seat of

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Christ and he shows his plan for me,

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the plan of my life as it might

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have been, had he had his way, and

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I see how I blocked him here and

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I checked him there and I would not

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yield my will, will there be grief in

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my Savior's eyes, grief, though he loves me

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still?

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Would he have me rich and I stand

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there poor, stripped of all but his grace,

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while memory runs like a hunted thing down

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the paths I cannot retrace?

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Lord of the years that are left to

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me, I give them to thy hand.

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Take me and break me and mold me

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to the pattern that thou hast planned.

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It's going to be an awesome day.

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When I was at school, I said about

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two-thirds back there was a kind of

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a level here, then there were some seats

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up here, and I sat in the first

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little gallery as it were.

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And you know, I didn't mind school too

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much, but I was very envious in those

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days of the school captain.

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He lived, he worked just across the aisle

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from me.

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He was the best soccer player, and I

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wanted to be that.

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He was the best at cricket, and I

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liked cricket.

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He was the best runner we had, and

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I liked running.

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And he was a very good artist, but

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he was quite a brain.

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And you know, if I could ever save

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up my stomach aches, I saved them till

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the day before the final examination.

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But my mother was smart, she knew I

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was saving them up, I don't know how.

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And I'd get up that morning and say,

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Mother, I don't feel good at all.

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I think I should stay at home.

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She'd say, Okay, you can stay at home

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tomorrow, but not today.

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But today was the day of judgment.

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And you know, the things would be put

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down on the board there, and as soon

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as they were down, Renton would get it.

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His name was Renton, and he'd get his

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paper, and he'd dash through it.

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Man, he was through the first two or

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three subjects before I'd even got the things

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read.

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Oh, he and another guy that were there,

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they used to say it bought its exams.

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And they knew they'd be number one and

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number two, and every year I was at

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school, they were number one and number two

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on the chart when it came out.

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These boys were always at the top, they

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had no fear of the judgment.

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They were prepared for it.