Prayer Changes Habits
Illustration★★★Illustration 15. A little boy had a fondness for getting into mud-puddles. Finally his mother suggested to him that he had better pray about the matter and see if God would not help him. He prayed, “Oh, God please keep Donald out of the mud-puddles.” He thought for a moment and then prayed again, “Oh, God, please see to it that there are no mud-puddles for Donald to get into.”
Found in The Illustration in Sermon_ Address, Conversation and, Rev. Lester B. Mathewson · multiple
The point
A boy who prays about his mud-puddle habit learns through answered prayer to pray more comprehensively for freedom from temptation itself.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Instructive · Hopeful
To tell aloud
under a minute · 70 words