Godly children are perhaps the most notable monuments to answered prayer (see 1 Chronicles 28:9). We live in the day of ‘walkathons’, ‘swimathons’, and the like. It seems that W. Liefeld views prayer marathons with distaste.2 I once heard of a money-raising ‘fastathon’ which seemed a remarkable (because unnoticed) corruption of a spiritual practice into a fund-raising technique. Theologically it is impossible to believe that there is any point at which
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