In the consecrated believer the Holy Spirit is preeminently a Spirit of prayer. If our whole being is committed to Him and our thoughts are under His control, He will occupy every moment in communion.
We shall bring everything to Him as it comes, and pray it out in our spiritual consciousness before we act it out in our lives. We shall, therefore, find ourselves taking up the burdens of life and praying them out in a wordless prayer which we ourselves often cannot understand, but which is simply the unfolding of His thought and will within us. This will be followed by the unfolding of His providence concerning us.
Unfaithfulness and disobedience to the faintest whisper of His will often hinder some blessing which He meant for us. After a while, we may become so dull and negligent that He will not be able to trust us with His whispers, and we shall stumble on in the darkness and miss His highest thoughts.
Lord, teach us to pray in the Spirit, to pray without ceasing, and to lose nothing of Thy will.
[A.B. Simpson]
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Acts 6:4 ... But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Jude 1:20 ... But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ... Pray without ceasing.❤
