Let us be careful to keep God and His glory at the center of our prayers. It has been said that the spiritual discipline of prayer is no longer viewed as a pressing need in the church. Of course we would never say so much. Nevertheless, proof that the church has lost much of its will to pray is the fact that we do so little of it.
We seem to have lost sight of our complete desperation without God. We have forgotten that we depend on Him for everything. We assume too much of God without pleading with Him for our needs. Perhaps one of the reasons we struggle so much is because we have failed to ask God for power for ministry, a common theme in the prayer life of the Apostle Paul.
Let us pray as did Paul for spiritual strength, “…that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:17-19).
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"A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life" by William Law
Reading Spurgeon's sermon "The Comforter" preached in 1855.
Thanks, Brad for your posts. They always inspire me. I know I never pray enough or fervently enough