Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
"Do not cease to cry to the Lord for us"  (1 Samuel 7:8).  George DeHoff wrote, "How often have preachers been implored to pray for those at death's door, only to see all signs of penitence vanish upon the recovery of the sick or the lifting of the threat of death."[12]  As an old Latin proverb has it: