COMMENTS
In brief, our prayers, to be acceptable to God, must express confident faith, loving esteem and reverence, full sympathy with the Divine Plan and submission to the Divine will, childlike dependence upon God, acknowledgment of sins and shortcomings and desire for forgiveness, with humble craving for the Divine guidance and protection. These may not always all be expressed in words, but such must at least be the attitude of the soul.
"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed"
We need the Lord's instructions in order properly to pray. We would not know for what to ask, why to ask, nor how to ask without His instructions. How necessary then, that we come to Him, with humble petitions that He teach us how to pray. Well for us that we prove as apt pupils as He is an apt Teacher of prayer. He will manifest to us its nature, elements, incentives, objects, conditions, cultivation, repression, expression and results.
Psa. 5:1-3; 42:8; 109:4; 116:2; Dan. 6:10; Matt. 6:5-15; Luke 2:37; 18:1-13; Acts 6:4; 10:2, 9; Rom. 1:9; 12:12; Eph. 1:15, 16; Col. 1:9; 1 Thes. 3:10; 5:17; 1 Tim. 5:5; 2 Tim. 1:3.
