Magnificent Prayer #46
Magnificent Prayer #46
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you.
1 Samuel 12:23
If I feel myself disinclined to pray, then is the time when I need to pray more than ever. Possible when the soul leaps and exults in communion with God it might more safely refrain from prayer than at those seasons when it drags heavily in devotion.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Pray About It: We all face days when we just don’t feel like praying. We even reason, if I have to do it legalistically, then it profits me nothing. Surely God doesn’t want me to pray when my heart’s not in it.
That’s true, but what usually happens is that if we once make the effort to simply begin to pray, we find that something within us loosens up and we continue on.
If you don’t feel like praying, there’s probably an urgent, unknown to you reason why you should be praying.
Just start. Don’t worry about anything else. Just start.
Deliver me, O Lord, from a slothful mind, from all lukewarmness, and all dejection of spirit. I know these only serve to deaden my love for you. Mercifully free my heart from them and give me a lively, zealous, active, and cheerful spirit, so that I can vigorously do all that you’ve assigned to me.
JOHN WESLEY
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