Magnificent Prayer #179
Magnificent Prayer #179
Oh, how I love your law!
I meditate on it all day long.
Psalm 119:97
[The following is a description of George Mueller’s devotional hour, taken from his journal:]
The first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon His precious Word, was to begin to meditate on the Word of God, searching as it were every verse to get a blessing out of it; not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word, nor for the sake of preaching on what I meditated upon, but for the sake of obtaining food for my own soul.
The result I have found to be almost invariably this: that after a very few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that, though I did not, as it were, give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer.
GEORGE MUELLER
Pray About It: When prayer is hard to start, lay it aside and begin with the Word. Read a psalm and meditate on it for a moment. Then turn it into a prayer. Your spirit will soon be soaring in prayer. Fellowship with the written Word turns into fellowship with the Living Word.
The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.
HERBERT LOCKYER
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