Magnificent Prayer #137
Magnificent Prayer #137
Give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.
2 Chronicles 6:19
It takes prayer to minister. It takes life, the highest form of life, to minister. Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations. It is life, radiant, transporting, eternal life.
Away with dry forms, with dead, cold habits of prayer! Away with sterile routine, with senseless performances, and petty playthings in prayer! Let us get at the serious work, the chief business of men, that of prayer. Let us work at it skillfully. Let us seek to be adept in this great work of praying. Let us be master-workmen, in this high art of praying. Let us be so in the habit of prayer, so devoted to prayer, so filled with its rich spices, so ardent by its holy flame, that all heaven and earth will be perfumed by its aroma, and nations yet in the womb will be blest by our prayers.
Heaven will be fuller and brighter in glorious inhabitants, earth will be better prepared for its bridal day, and hell robbed of many of its victims, because we have lived to pray.
E. M. BOUNDS
Pray About It: Think about your unique place in God’s history. There are things for which you alone can pray. If you were not here to pray—if you had never been born, or had died early—these matters could not be prayed for in the unique way that you can. Take delight in knowing that your calling as a pray-er is unique. Things will happen only because you prayed.
A zealous Christian feels that, like a lamp, he is made to burn. And if he’s consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a Christian will always find an outlet for his zeal. If he can’t preach or work or give money, he will cry, and sigh, and pray.
J. C. RYLE
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