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

by Andrew Murray

Our first work, therefore, ought to be to come into God’s presence – not with our ignorant prayers or with many words and thoughts, but in the confidence that the divine work of the Holy Spirit is being carried on within us. This confidence will encourage reverence and quietness, and will also enable us, in dependence on the help that the Spirit gives, to lay our desires and heart-needs before God.