What a blessed privilege, dear fellow-disciples of the Lord, is ours, to be instant in prayer, to pray always—to lift up our hearts and minds to God at any time and in any place and to realize thus daily and hourly that the Father and our dear Lord Jesus continually abide with us. And then, when the active duties of the day have been performed under His eye and supervision, or at any time when the soul realizes its necessity, how precious is the privilege of entering into our closets and there, alone with God, unburdening our hearts.
Prayer is communion on the part of man with God. God, unlike human beings, is never wearied with believers who come to Him. Therefore such always have access to Him in prayer in Jesus' name. How gratefully, therefore, should we always appreciate and use this privilege! It will uplift us and gain for us blessings otherwise unobtainable. These blessings will be of a twofold kind: those coming from our exercising the prayer spirit (i.e., the reflex effect of prayer) and the answered gifts.
Luke 18:1-8; 1 Thes. 5:17; Col. 4:2; Eph. 6:18, 19; Acts 12:5; 2:42; Psa. 27:8; 145:18; Prov. 15:8; Isa. 55:6; Matt. 6:5-15; 7:7, 8; 1 Tim. 2:8; Jas. 5:16; Jude 1:20.
