Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Jones frames prayer not as retreat from action but as the moment when vocation is clarified and energized. “Commission” suggests an authorization and sending: in prayer, the believer receives a mandate that feels like an inward “divine compulsion.” The “quietness with God” is presented as a generating station—an interior stillness that produces moral and spiritual power capable of moving the world’s “machinery.” The emphasis is practical and missionary: prayer aligns the person with God’s purposes, transforming private devotion into public responsibility and making action feel less self-initiated and more responsive to a call.