“But when thou prayest, enter into the inner chamber and shut thy door.” This is Jesus’ teaching of the silence, the dynamic concept of deep prayer. In a very real sense, much that we think of as prayer is but a preparation for prayer. It is the process of resolving the conflicts of the mind so that we can “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10). When we plug the battery into a charger, it does not chatter away about how much it needs the charging. It simply and quietly accepts the inflow of energy. And when we pray, Jesus is telling us, we should get into the depths of our being, and
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