Years ago in a church prayer meeting, there was a faithful old deacon who always used the same phrase in his public prayers. He would pray: “O Lord, touch the unsaved with Thy finger.”

One night however, after leading in prayer as he often did and repeating that old phrase again (“O Lord, touch the unsaved with Thy finger.”), he abruptly stopped praying. Afterwards, one of the members thinking that maybe the deacon had become ill, took him aside and asked if anything was wrong, was he ill.