Taking No for an Answer

“Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer,” said Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

He’s not the only one to make this observation. “There is nothing that we are so bad at all our days as prayer,” observed Alexander Whyte. “There are times in my life when I would rather die than pray,” said Thomas Shepard. “As for my heart, when I go to pray, I find it so reluctant to go to God, and when it is with him, so reluctant to stay with him,” wrote John Bunyan.

These are not the observations of s...