Magnificent Prayer #338
Magnificent Prayer #338
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
Colossians 1:9–12
Fletcher of Madeley, a great teacher of a century and a half ago, used to lecture to the young theological students. He was one of the fellow-workers with Wesley and a man of most saintly character. When he had lectured on one of the great topics of the Word of God, such as the Fullness of God’s Holy Spirit or on the power and blessing that He meant His people to have, he would close the lecture and say, “That is the theory; now will those who want the practice come along up to my room?” And again and again they closed their books and went away to his room, where the hour’s theory would be followed by one or two hours of prayer.
HUBERT BROOKE
Pray About It: The men and the women who have spoken to you in the readings from this book would be disappointed if they learned that their words became only theory to their readers. To grasp their true message requires practicing what these godly Christians have preached.
In the future, you’ll read other books on prayer or hear sermons teaching you how to pray. Whenever you hear or read about prayer, don’t tuck the thought away as a nice inspiration. Always, always, put into practice what you’ve learned. Or you will lose it.
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
SAMUEL CHADWICK
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