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\u201cHow sweet is prayer to my soul at this time,\u201d Henry Martyn notes in his diary. \u201cI seem as if I could never be tired, not only of spiritual joys, but of spiritual employments, since these are now the same.
\n\u201cI felt as if I could never be tired with prayer. . . At night read the third and fourth chapters of the Acts; and lost much time and spirituality by indulging ideas of schemes about the Gospel, which had more of romance and pride in them than of wisdom and humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n
If prayer matters then it ought not to be counted continually second in our scene of life. . . . All the time the devil is fighting our half-hour\u2019s prayer, he never tires of fighting it. Sometimes there is a dullness which is a cloud of hell, sometimes a fiery assault.
\n\u201cWe know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.\u201d We pray from the ground of that certainty; not towards certainty, but from it. Is that why we have the words, \u2018In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving\u2019? We give thanks before we see. Then the thought came, \u201cWhat is it that we have in this sense already received? Surely just this: that the glory of the Lord will be manifested (for is not this what we desired of Him?), and that the very best will be done from His eternal point of view, for the work committed to us.\u201d Amy Carmichael<\/p>\n
Not in the tumult of the rending storm,
\nNot in the earthquake or devouring flame,
\nBut in the hush that could all fear transform,
\nThe still, small whisper to the Prophet came.<\/p>\n
O Soul, keep silence on the mount of God,
\nThough cares and needs throb round thee like a sea;
\nFrom supplications and desires unshod,
\nBe still, and hear what God shall say to thee.<\/p>\n
O rest, in utter quietude of soul,
\nAbandon words, leave prayer and praise awhile,
\nLet thy whole being, hushed in His control,
\nLearn the full meaning of His voice and smile.
\n\u2015Mary Rowles Jarvis.<\/em><\/p>\nThese quotations have been taken from How They Prayed Volume Three which is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n
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