The Importance of Prayer

When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray it makes supplication to you in this house. And when a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, then hear in heaven an act and judge your servants condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head. When you teach them the good way in which they should walk and grant rain upon your land, would you have given that as an inheritance? If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or loc