Dr. R. A. Torrey tells us, "Let us take up (the four phrases of #1 Prayer Without Ceasing, posted 4/4), and study them.
We take up first the third phrase, for it is really the most important one,'unto God.'
But someone will say, 'Is not all prayer unto God?" No! Comparatively few of the prayers that go up from this earth today are really unto God.
If there is to be any power in our prayer, if our prayer is go get anything, the first thing to be sure of when we pray is that we have come into the presence of God, and are actually praying to Him.
Oh, let those two words, 'unto God', sink deep into our heart; and from this time on never pray, never utter one syllable of prayer, until you are sure that you have come into the presence of God and are really talking to Him.
Some years ago in our church in Chicago, before we began the great Saturday night prayer meetings to pray for a world-wide revival, a little group of us used to meet every Saturday night for prayer, to pray for God's blessing upon the work of the next day.
Never more than a handful of people came, but we had wonderful times of blessing.
One night after we had gathered together, I arose to open the meeting and said to those gathered there, 'Now we are going to kneel in prayer and every one of you feel at perfect liberty to ask for what God puts into your heart to ask for but be sure you do not utter a word of prayer until you have really come into the presence of God, and know that you are talking to Him.'
Then we knelt in prayer.
A friend of mine, a business man, had come in just before I said that.
One day the following week I met him and he said to me, 'Mr Torrey, I ought to be ashamed to confess it, but do you know that the thought you threw out last Saturday night just before we knelt in prayer, that not one of us should utter a syllable of prayer until we had really come into the presence of God, and knew that we were talking him, was an entirely new thought to me and it has transformed my prayer life?"
Today's post: #2 Prayer unto God, in the series by what Prayer can do, by Dr. R. A. Torrey. The next post will be 4/11- #3 An Audience With the King
Published by REVIVAL MOVEMENT ASSOCIATION, of Northern Ireland.www.revivalmovement.org
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Our quote for today: Watts -
"See, from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a crown?”
Our thought for today: God is eternally committed to us, and
longs to have an intimate relationship with us.
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