Alone With God: Rediscovering the Power and Passion of Prayer

by John F. MacArthur Jr.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”

It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life.…

Continual, persistent, incessant prayer is an essential part of Christian living, and it flows out of dependence on God.

To “pray without ceasing” basically refers to recurring prayer, not nonstop talking. Thus it is to be our way of life—we’re to be continually in an attitude of prayer.

so even when we sleep, we are still to be in the spirit of prayer, so that if perchance we wake in the night we may still be with God.

Our souls should be in such a condition that ejaculatory prayer should be very frequent with us. No need to pause in business and leave the counter, and fall down upon the knees; the spirit should send up its silent, short, swift petitions to the throne of grace.

I think of praying at all times as living in continual God consciousness, where everything we see and experience becomes a kind of prayer, lived in deep awareness of and surrender to our Heavenly Father.

To pray in the Spirit is to pray in the name of Christ—that is, to pray consistent with His nature and will.