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Pray Always, January 13
Prayer in My Life
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to
stand before the Son of man.
Luke 21:36
Remember that He was often in prayer, and His life was constantly
sustained by fresh inspirations of the Holy Spirit. Let your thoughts,
your inner life, be such that you will not be ashamed to meet its record
in the day of God.
Heaven is not closed against the fervent prayers of the righteous.
Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, yet the Lord heard,
and in a most striking manner answered his petitions. The only reason
for our lack of power with God is to be found in ourselves. If the inner
life of many who profess the truth were presented before them, they
would not claim to be Christians. They are not growing in grace. A
hurried prayer is offered now and then, but there is no real communion
with God.
We must be much in prayer if we would make progress in the divine
life. When the message of truth was first proclaimed, how much we
prayed. How often was the voice of intercession heard in the chamber,
in the barn, in the orchard, or the grove. Frequently we spent hours in
earnest prayer, two or three together claiming the promise; often the
sound of weeping was heard and then the voice of thanksgiving and
the song of praise. Now the day of God is nearer than when we first
believed, and we should be more earnest, more zealous, and fervent than
in those early days. Our perils are greater now than then. Souls are more
hardened. We need now to be imbued with the Spirit of Christ, and we
should not rest until we receive it.
Cultivate the habit of talking with the Saviour.... Let the heart be
continually uplifted in silent petition for help, for light, for strength, for
knowledge. Let every breath be a prayer.
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