You ever talk with good friends about prayer?
We talked about if for a while in a meeting I was in today.
I suppose there are some dangers in talking about prayer as opposed to just praying.
But it was really helpful to talk honestly about our failures, frustrations and new intentions relating to prayer.
If you want to pray for me, pray that I would be a man of prayer.
Pray that my study would be a place of prayerful wrestling.
I recently re-read Charles Spurgeon’s marvelous lecture on “the preacher’s private prayer.” You can check it out at this link: http://www.cblibrary.net/pastoral_aids/spurgeon_lectures/lms_03.htm
A couple of favorite lines…
All our libraries and studies are mere emptiness compared with our closets.
Texts will often refuse to reveal their treasures till you open them with the key of prayer. The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author himself is far better, and prayer makes a direct appeal to him and enlists him in our cause.
If you can dip your pens into your hearts, appealing in earnestness to the Lord, you will write well; and if you can gather your matter on your knees at the gate of heaven, you will not fail to speak well.