PRAYER by C. H. Spurgeon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 10.

PRAYER

By C. H. Spurgeon

Prayer is to us a reality; and God hears it and answers us, and gives us many evidences of his love in the answers to our prayers. Some of these we can tell to the praise of his glory; but there are ten times as many which we would not tell for all the world, for they are like love passages between two enamored souls—they are too precious to be whispered to other ears. It would be casting pearls before swine if the spiritual man, who dwells with God apart, were to tell all that he asks of God, and all the Lord’s answers to his prayers.

But, O, believe me, you can not enjoy real fellowship with God in prayers, and come out of the closet with Luther’s, “Vici! Vici!” (I have conquered! I have conquered!), on your lips, and live to enjoy the fruits of your victory in wrestling with God in secret, and then have any doubt whether you have a right and title to the eternal heritage. The

prophet Micah said, “My God will hear me,” and if you can truly, from your soul, say the same, you have a blessed evidence that you are an heir of heaven.—C. H. Spurgeon.