“Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.” - Robert Murray McCheyne 

“The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men – aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life, is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer.”- Andrew Murray 

“Prayer and praise are to the Christian as the two wings are to the bird. Don’t expect the bird to fly if one wing is broken. Even so the Christian needs both prayer and praise.” - J. Wesley Adcock, 

“Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite and vivid consciousness that we are talking to God and should believe that He is listening to our petition and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. We should look to the Holy Spirit to really lead us into the presence of God and should not be hasty in words until He has actually brought us there.” -R. A. Torrey 

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. – E. M. Bounds 

Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.—E.M. Bounds 

Prayer should not be regarded “as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.”- E.M. Bounds 

God’s children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night. – Robert Murray McCheyne 

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution. - E.M. Bounds 

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer. - E.M. Bounds 

“Men ought always to pray, and not faint.” – Bible, Luke 18:1 I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise, and the answers are always coming. - George Mueller 

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. - John Calvin 

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - Samuel Chadwick 

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers 

O Brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper- and sleep too- than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber. – Andrew A. Bonar 

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. — James 5:16, -The Holy Bible The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God’s character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline. – Oswald Chambers 

Prayer is repeating the victor’s name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. –- S. D. Gordon Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. – James 4:7  He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal. – C. S. Spurgeon 

The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.– Andrew Murray 

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. – E. M. Bounds 

The man who has gotten God’s word in the prayer closet neither seeks nor expects encouragement from men for the delivery of that word. the Spirit Himself bears witness of the approval. – Leonard Ravenhill 

“When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it, the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezek. 36, 37, together with the context. And it is revealed that when God is about to accomplish great things for His Church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (Zach. 12:10). …I should think the people of God in this land would be in the way of their duty to do three times as much fasting and prayer as they do” -Jonathan Edwards 

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. - John Wesley 

When Christians are united, and praying as they ought, God opens the windows of heaven, and pours out His blessing till there is not room to receive it (Read Mal. 3:10). Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. - Oswald Chambers 

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it. -Oswald Chambers

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear me. – David, Psalm 55:17 

Pray without ceasing.- 1Thessalonians 5:17

God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. – Samuel, from 1Samuel 12:23 

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.-Jer. 33:3 

“Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.”    -John Chrysostom 

“True prayer is God the Holy Spirit talking to God the Father in the name of God the Son, and the believer’s heart is the prayer-room.”-  Samuel M. Zemer

Prayer is the soul in paraphrase, and the heart in pilgrimage.-George Herbert 

Let there always be quiet, dark churches in which people can take refuge…houses of God filled with His silent presence.  There, even when they do not know how to pray, at least they can be still and breathe easily.-Thomas Merton 

Conversing with Jesus…Imagine you see Jesus sitting close to you. In doing this you are putting your imagination at the service of your faith. Jesus isn’t here in the way you are imagining him, but he certainly is here, and your imagination helps to make you aware of this. Now, speak to Jesus …. if no one is around, speak out in a soft voice …. Listen to what Jesus says to you in reply, or what you imagine him to say …. That is the difference between thinking and praying. When we think, we generally talk to ourselves. When we pray, we talk to God.- (Anthony de Mello SJ, Sadhana ps 78-79)  

Lord Jesus, come yourself, and dwell with us, be human as we are, and overcome what overwhelms us. Come into the midst of my evil, come close to my unfaithfulness. Share my sin, which I hate and which I cannot leave. Be my brother, Thou Holy God. Be my brother in the kingdom of evil and suffering and death. Come with me in my death, come with me in my suffering, come with me as I struggle with evil. And make me holy and pure, despite my sin and death.-Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity -M. Basilea Schlink 

When we pray it is far more important to pray with a sense of the greatness of God than with a sense of the greatness of the problem. -Evangeline Blood 

Prayer for many is like a foreign land.  When we go there, we go as tourists.  Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place.  Like most tourist, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.  -Robert McAfee Brown 

The best prayers have often more groans than words  -John Bunyan 

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer. -Oswald Chambers 

And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees -William Cowper 

Keep praying, but be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your prayers -William Culbertson 

Prayer is opening ourselves to God so that He can open us to others -Lois Evely 

We are working with God to determine the future!  Certain things will happen in history if we pray rightly.  We are to change the world by prayers. -Richard Foster

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening -Matthew Henry 

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says “Amen” and runs away before God has a chance to reply.  Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas. -Frank Laubach 

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him -William Law 

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day-Abraham Lincoln 

The value in persistent prayer is not that he will hear us…but that we will finally hear him-William McGillIn

the spiritual life there are not tricks and no short cuts…Once cannot begin to face the real difficulties of the life of prayer and meditation unless one is first perfectly content to be a beginner and really experience oneself as one who knows little or nothing…-Thomas Merton 

Prayer means yearning for the simple presence of God, for a personal understanding of his word, for knowledge of his will and for capacity to hear and obey him. -Thomas Merton 

Id rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach but only how to pray.  Boy do we  have this messed up in modern evangelism and ministry…God help us to learn from this profound truth!  -D.L. Moody 

One of the main reasons many of God’s children don’t have a significant prayer life is not so much that we don’t want to, but that we don’t plan to…we get up day after day and realize that significant times of prayer should be part of our life, but nothing is ever ready.  We don’t know where to go.  Nothing has been planned.  No time.  No place.  No procedure…if you want renewal in your life of prayer you must plan to see it -John Piper 

Pray to God but keep rowing to the shore-Russian Proverb 

We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.  I would sooner see you eloquent with God than with men-Charles Spurgeon 

If Christ himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.-B.H. Streeter 

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this:  Listen to your life.  See it for the fathomless mystery it is.  In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” -Fredrick Beuchner  

Whatever we beg of God, let us also work for it -Jeremy Taylor 

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.  We have a great deal of activity but we accomplish little; many services, but few conversions; much machinery but few results  -R. A. Torrey 

As a man prays, so is he.-A.W. Tozer 

We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming of God’s reluctance, but as a laying hold of his highest willingness. -Richard Chenevix   

Too many people pray only for emergency rations rather than asking God for daily bread. -unknown 

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.-M. Basilea Schlink 

Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities.  Rather, lose yourself in God.  When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him.  Live in His presence and abide in Him.  Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.-M. Basilea Schlink 

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child.  It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.  -M. Basilea Schlink 

Why should I spend an hour in prayer when I do nothing during that time but think about people I am angry with, people who are angry with me, books I should read and books I should write, and thousands of other silly things that happen to grab my mind for a moment?The answer is:  because God is greater than my mind and my heart, and what is really happening in the house of prayer is not measurable in terms of human success and failure.What I must do first of all is be faithful.  If I believe that the first commandment is to love God with my whole heart, mind, soul, than I should at least be able to spend one hour a day with nobody else but God.  The question as to whether it is helpful, useful, practical or fruitful is completely irrelevant, since the only reason to love is love itself.  Everything else is secondary.The remarkable thing, however, is that sitting in the presence of God for one hour each morning—day after day, week after week, month after month—in total confusion and with myriad distractions radically changes my life.  God, who loves me so much that He sent His only Son not to condemn me but to save me, does not leave me waiting in the dark too long.  I might think that each hour is useless, but after thirty, or sixty, or ninety such useless hours, I gradually realize that I was not as alone as I thought; a very small, gentle voice has been speaking to me far beyond my noisy place.”“So:  Be confident and trust in the Lord.”  –Henri Nouwen

Why, O Lord, is it so hard for me to keep my heart directed toward you?  Why do the many little things I want to do, and the many people I know, keep crowding into my mind, even during the hours that I am totally free to be with you and you alone?  Why does my mind wander off in so many directions, and why does my heart desire the things that lead me astray?  Are you not enough for me?  Do I keep doubting your love and care, your mercy and grace?  Do I keep wondering, in the center of my being, whether you will give me all I need if I just keep my eyes on you? 

Please accept my distractions, my fatigue, my irritations, and my faithless wanderings.  You know me more deeply and fully than I know myself.  You love me with a greater love than I know myself.  You even offer me more than I can desire.  Look at me, see me in all my misery and inner confusion, and let me sense your presence in the midst of my turmoil.  All I can do is show myself to you.  Yet, I am afraid to do so.  I am afraid that you will reject me.  But I know—with the knowledge of faith—that you desire to give me your love.  The only thing you ask of me is not to hide from you, not to run away in despair, not to act as if you were a relentless despot.Take my tired body, my confused mind, and restless soul into your arms and give me rest, simple quite rest.  Do I ask too much too soon?  I should not worry about that.  You will let me know.  Come, Lord Jesus, come.  Amen” -Henri Nouwen

 -  Prayer is like breath in my lungs 

-  Prayer is an act of obedience.

 -  Prayer is the foundation of my continuing relationship with GOD. 

-  Prayer has allowed an intimate relationship to develop and mature. 

-  Prayer makes me more sensitive to my FATHER’s wishes.

 -  Prayer gives me the ability to bless others in a manner that is far beyond what I can do for them. 

-  Prayer is the forerunner of all activity by the people of GOD on earth.

 -  Prayer is the arena of spiritual warfare. 

-  Prayer establishes my FATHER’s will in me. 

-  Prayer allows the comfort of GOD’s SPIRIT to come within me. 

-  Prayer is fellowship with my FATHER, my LORD , and HIS SPIRIT. 

-  Prayer allows me to serve in areas I would normally not be able to serve.

 -  Prayer is a gift of Love to my brothers and sisters as well as to the unsaved. 

-  Prayer allows advocacy on behalf of others and myself. 

-  Prayer brings me the opportunity for direct instruction from my FATHER.

 -  Prayer is a defense against the attacks by the adversary and the temptations of this world. 

-  Prayer builds me up and strengthens my faith. 

-  Prayer is an act of Worship as I express my love to GOD, my feeling about HIS greatness, and HIS great gift to us.

-Cremin Benson

When uttered on sincere lips, “I’m praying for you” can be as frightening a thought as it is encouraging. Someone is standing at the throne of God with your name on their heart. It introduces an entirely new set of concerns: Are they praying for me the way I’m praying for myself? Are they asking God for the answer I’m longing for? When my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I was livid when someone told me they were praying that God would take him home quickly, even though in between our cries for healing, we were praying that God’s will would be done. As someone once noted, prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. Knowing that someone is standing before God on your behalf is powerful not because they are standing with you, but because they are standing with God.The apostle Paul often voiced in his letters gratitude for the prayers of believers on his behalf. In and out of jail, in abundance and in lack, he saw them participate in bringing about God’s purposes in his life through their prayers for him. To the Philippian church he wrote, “Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance” (1:19). He did not thank them for praying that what had happened to him would be altogether reversed, but that the purposes of God would be accomplished in all things. Paul saw the power in prayers which hoped and expected with all boldness that Christ would be exalted whether by life or by death.

-Slice

Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it’s all a dream
—One talker aping two.

They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say,
And lo! The wells are dry.

Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The Listener’s role, and through
My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.

And thus you neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem
Two talking, thou are One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:  for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is spirit:  and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23,24)

This is one of the earliest recorded teachings of Jesus on prayer, here Jesus spoke of a threefold worship.  There is first, the ignorant worship of the Samaritans:  “ye worship ye know not what”.  The second, the intelligent worship of the Jew, having the true knowledge of God:  “we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jew.”  And then the new, the spiritual worship which He himself has come to introduce:  “But the hour cometh, and now is, when worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth.”“Spirit and truth” do not mean earnestly from the heart, in sincerity…the Samaritans had the five books of Moses and some knowledge of God; there were some who sought the Lord earnestly in prayer.  The Jews had the true full revelation of God in His word and thus far given; there were among them godly men who called upon God with their whole heart.  But still not “in spirit and truth” in the full meaning of the words.  Jesus says, “the hour cometh, and now is” it is only in and through Him that the worship of God will be in spirit and truth           

Among Christians one still finds the 3 classes of worshippers.  Some who in their ignorance hardly know what they ask.  They pray earnestly, and yet receive little.  Others with more knowledge, try to pray with all their mind and heart—often most earnestly but do not attain the full blessedness of worship in spirit and truth—in prayer everything will depend on our understanding well and practicing the worship in spirit and truth.           

To worship in spirit must come from God himself.  God is Spirit.  He alone has Spirit to give.  It was for this He sent His Son to fit us for such spiritual worship by giving us the Holy Spirit.  It is of His own work that Jesus speaks when He says twice, “the hour cometh” and then adds, “and now is.”  He came to baptize with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit could not stream forth until He was glorified (John 1:33—I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, the man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.  I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God. 7:37,38—if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him, by this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.  Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified; 16:17—but I tell you the truth:  it is for your good that I go away.  Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you ; but if I go, I will send him to you.)—it was when he had made an end of sin, and entering into the Holiest of all with His blood, had there on our behalf received the Holy Spirit(Acts 2:33—Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear), that He could send Him down to us as the Spirit of the Father. 

It was when Christ had redeemed us, and we in Him had received the position of children, that the Father sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts to cry “Abba Father”  the worship in spirit means the worship of the Father in the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of Sonship.  The worship in spirit is only possible to those whom the Son has revealed the Father, and who have received the spirit of Sonship.  It is only Christ who opens the way and teaches the worship in spirit.             

“In truth” does not mean in sincerity.  Nor does it only signify in accordance with the truth of God’s word.  The expression is one of deep and divine meaning.  Jesus is “the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”  The law was given by Moses; grace and truth come by Jesus Christ.  Jesus says, “I am the truth and life.”  In the OT all was shadow and promise.  Jesus brought and gives the reality, the substance, of things hoped for.  In Him the blessings and powers of the eternal life are our actual possession and experience.  Jesus is full of grace and truth.  The HS is the S of truth, a positive communication out of the divine life.  So worship in spirit is worship in truth, actual living fellowship with God, with a real correspondence and harmony between the Father, who is Spirit, and the child praying in the spirit.             

We are carnal and cannot bring God the worship He seeks.  But Jesus came to give the Spirit.  He has given Him to us.  Let the disposition in which we set ourselves to pray be what Christ’s words have taught us.  Let there be the deep confession of our inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him, the childlike teachableness that waits on Him to instruct us, and the simple faith that yields itself to the breathing of the Spirit.  Above all, let us hold fast the blessed truth that the knowledge of Fatherhood of God, the revelation of His infinite Fatherliness in our hearts, the faith in the infinite love that gives us His Son and His Spirit to make us children is indeed the secret of prayer in spirit and truth.  This is the new and living way Christ opened up to us.  To have Christ the Son and the Spirit of the Son dwelling within us and revealing the Father, this makes us true, spiritual worshippers.           

 Blessed Lord, I adore the love with which you did teach a woman, who had refused you a cup of water, what the worship of God must be.  I rejoice in the assurance that you will no less now instruct your disciple, who comes to you with a heart that longs to pray in spirit and in truth.  O my Master, do teach me this blessed secret.           

Teach me that the worship in spirit and truth is not of man but only comes from you that it is no only a thing of times and seasons, but the out-flowing of a life in you.  teach me to draw near to God in prayer with a deep awareness of my ignorance and my having nothing in myself to offer Him, and at the same time of the provision that you, my Savior, makes for the Spirit’s breathing in my childlike stammerings.  I do bless you that in you I am a child and have a child’s liberty of access, that in you I have the spirit of Sonship and of worship in truth.  Teach me, above all, blessed Son of the Father, how it is the revelation of the Father that gives confidence in prayer.  Let the infinite Fatherliness of God’s heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and worship. -Amen

And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceasesd, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord teach us to pray (Luke 11:1) 

“Lord teach us to pray”, is what we need to be taught.  It is fellowship with the unseen and most Holy One.  The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal.  It is the very essence of the true religion.  It is the channel of all blessings and the secret of power and life.  Through prayer God has given to all the right to take hold of Him and His strength.  It is on prayer that promises wait for their fulfillment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation.             

But how slothful and unfit we are for this blessed work.  Only the Spirit of God can enable us to do it as it should be done.   How quickly we are deceived into resting in the form while the power is missing   Our early training, the teaching of the Church, the influence of habit, the stirring of emotions-how easily any of these lead to prayer which has no spiritual power and avails but little.  For true prayer-that takes hold of God’s strength, that avails much, to which the gates of heaven are really opened wide-who would not cry, “Oh, for someone to teach me to pray in that way!”           

The powers and gifts of the heavenly world are for us.  Teach us to pray so that we may receive abundantly.  To us too you have entrusted your work.  On our prayer, too the coming of your kingdom depends.  In prayer too you can glorify your name.  Yes, us, Lord, we offer ourselves as learners…if God is about hallowing his own name, “for my name’s sake” why would he now want to answer prayer of faith that would testify to His Power and Sovereignty that would increase His fame.             

Let the deep undertone of all our prayer be the teachableness that comes from a sense of ignorance and from faith in Him as a perfect teacher.  Then we shall be taught.  We shall learn to pray in power.  We may depend upon it, He teaches to pray.             

It is Jesus, praying himself, who teaches us to pray.  He knows what prayer is.  He learned it in the trails and tears of His earthly life.  In heaven it is still His beloved work; His life there is prayer.  Nothing delights him more than to find those whom He can take with Him into the Father’s presence.  He can clothe them with power to pray down God’s blessing on those around them.  He can train them to be His fellow workers in the intercession by which the kingdom is to be revealed on earth.             

By His Holy Spirit, He has access to our heart and shows us the sin that hinders prayer or gives us the assurance that we please God.  He teaches not only by thoughts of what to ask or how to ask, but by breathing within us the very spirit of prayer, by living within us as the Great Intercessor.             

Jesus taught His disciples not how to preach, only how to pray.  He spoke little of what was needed to preach well but much of praying well.  To know how to speak to God is more vital than knowing how to speak to man.  Not power with men buy power with God is of supreme importance.  Jesus loves to teach us to pray.           

He will breathe into us His own life, which is all prayer.  As He makes us partakers of His righteousness and His life, He will of His intercession too.  As the members of His body, as a holy priesthood, we shall take part in His priestly work of pleading and prevailing with God for men.             

 Lord Jesus, I confess I know not how to pray as I ought.  Teach me to tarry with you and so give you time to rain me to pray.  May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of prayer and of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know.  Make me kneel before you in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.

-Andrew Murray

Blessed Lord, I adore the love with which you did teach a woman, who had refused you a cup of water, what the worship of God must be.  I rejoice in the assurance that you will no less now instruct your disciple, who comes to you with a heart that longs to pray in spirit and in truth.  O my Master, do teach me this blessed secret. Teach me that the worship in spirit and truth is not of man but only comes from you that it is no only a thing of times and seasons, but the out-flowing of a life in you.  Teach me to draw near to God in prayer with a deep awareness of my ignorance and my having nothing in myself to offer Him, and at the same time of the provision that you, my Savior, makes for the Spirit’s breathing in my childlike stammerings.  I do bless you that in you I am a child and have a child’s liberty of access, that in you I have the spirit of Sonship and of worship in truth.  Teach me, above all, blessed Son of the Father, how it is the revelation of the Father that gives confidence in prayer.  Let the infinite Fatherliness of God’s heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and worship…Amen -Andrew Murray