Should we know it?

Shall we begin today to be men of prayer, if we have never done so before?  Let us not put it off till a more convenient season.  God wants me to pray.  The dear Savior wants me to pray.  He needs my prayers.  So much- in fact, everything- depends upon prayer.  How dare we hold back?  Let every one of us ask on our knees this question:

If no one on earth prayed for the salvation of sinners more fervently or more frequently than I do, how many of them would be converted to God through prayer?

Do we spend ten minutes a day in prayer?  Do we consider it important enough for that?

Ten minutes a day on our knees in prayer- when the Kingdom of heaven can be had for the asking!

Ten minutes?  It seems a very inadequate portion of our time to spend in taking hold of God (Isa. 64:7)!

And is it prayer when we do “say” our prayers, or are we just repeating daily a few phrases which have become practically meaningless, whilst our thoughts are wandering hither and thither?

If God were to answer the words we repeated on our knees this morning, should we know it? Should we recognize the answer?  Do we even remember what we asked for?  He does answer.  He has given us his word for it.  He always answers every real prayer of faith.

-The Kneeling Christian

Why is it that so often we (and I am included in this) complain at how the world is, how our world is, yet we very rarely go to our knees and petition the very God who created it all?  I am far too guilty of bringing my deepest complaints, requests, and petitions to my wife, yet rarely to my savior.  Too often my prayer is “Thank you for this awesome weather”.  While there is nothing wrong with truly praising God for the weather (we should praise God in and for all things), we must learn to go beyond just speaking words, and learn to go boldly before the throne, bringing our whole heart and mind before Him.