I've found it as impossible to live and prosper spiritually without prayer as it must be to live and prosper physically with no food, and without any income of some kind.

Those folks who enjoy a tight walk with God through life and share in the exercise of power with him in his kingdom are those of us who pray in secret, but who know what 'secret' means in this.

Unless we are spiritual people, we will be of little use to God; and to be spiritual, we have to live a great deal in prayer.

Funnily enough it isn't those of us who are most frequently, or for the longest time, on our knees who do the most praying. Some people may pray more real prayer in one hour than others in two or three days.

Too many of us leave the door open. The sort of prayer that feeds the soul must be offered up with the door shut.

"But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." (Matthew 6:6).

God is in secret in the sense that he is hidden from the world. The world can't see him, and they don't know him, either. We can never get close enough to God in our prayers unless we shut out the world.

Shutting the door means something very different than closing the door of a private room. We can go into that private room and close the door, and yet we can easily have taken the world in there with us. We have not closed the door in the true sense.

We must go into our closet when we pray, and shut the door behind us, or our prayers will dissolve in the air around us. We must talk from our heart to the heart of God. Those around and about us may hear us speaking, but they don't know the secret; the secret lies between our heart and the heart of God. We hardly hear our own words falling out of our mouth; we know and hear more of the speaking of our heart.

There is a blessing for us in praying in secret this way; There is a certain joy in it that can't be shared with anyone.

Every blessing to you - Mike

Revd Mike Endicott
Director: Order of Jacob's Well

 

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