Continue in prayer. Colossians 4:2
"IT is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in
--furnishing examples,
--enforcing precepts,
--or pronouncing promises.
We scarcely open the Bible before we read, "Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord;" and just as we are about to close the volume, the "Amen" of an earnest supplication meets our ear.
Here we find a wrestling Jacob—there a Daniel who prayed three
times a day—and a David who with all his heart called upon his God.
On the mountain we see Elias; in the dungeon Paul and Silas.
Q: What does this teach us, but the sacred importance and necessity of prayer?
--We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
*If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
*A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.
Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.
The motto must be, "Continue in prayer."
Charles Spurgeon
