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

by Andrew Murray

We must not comfort ourselves with the thought of standing in a right relationship to the Lord Jesus while the sin of prayerlessness has power over us, and while we, along with the whole church, have to complain about our feeble lives that make us unfit to pray for ourselves, for the church, or for missions as we ought. If we recognize, in the first place, that a right relationship to the Lord Jesus, above all else includes prayer, with both the desire and power to pray according to God’s will, then we have something that gives us the right to rejoice in Him and to rest in Him.