The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

by Andrew Murray

3. When you have thus received the Word into your heart, turn to prayer. Do not attempt it hastily or thoughtlessly, as though you already knew well enough how to pray. Prayer in our own strength brings no blessing. Take time to present yourself reverently and in quietness before God. Remember His greatness and holiness and love. Think over what you want to ask from Him. Do not be satisfied with going over the same things every day. No child goes on saying the same thing day after day to his earthly father. Conversation with the Father is influenced by the needs of the day. Let your prayer be something specific, arising either out of the Word that you have read, or out of the real needs of your soul that you long to have satisfied.