Magnificent Prayer #134
Magnificent Prayer #134
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:12–13
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit, and vocation. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. We must be immersed in prayer as in our element, and so pray without ceasing. Lord, teach us to pray that we may be more prevalent in supplication.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Pray About It: Painters, poets, musicians, and other talented artists give themselves to their work. To be great they must, in a very real way, be addicted to their art. Michelangelo didn’t whip out his David in a week. Nor in a month. To be true to your art requires getting it right, no matter how long it takes.
In prayer, getting it right also means being patient and doing it over and over again. Prayer can be likened to an art in that the final result is a wonderful creation wrought through much sweat and labor.
If you are a pray-er, then you are an artist of the finest sort.
To pray rightly is a rare gift.
JOHN CALVIN
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