Praying and Working by C. H. Spurgeon

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 22, 1872

Praying and Working.

By C. H. Spurgeon

I LIKE that saying of Martin Luther when he says: “I have so much business to do to-day that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours’ prayer.” Now, most people would say, “I have so much business to do to-day that I can have only three minutes’ prayer; I cannot afford the time.” But Luther thought that the more he had to do, the more he must pray, or else he could not get through it. That is a blessed kind of logic; may we understand it! “Praying and provender hinder no man’s journey.” If we have to stop to pray, it is no more a hindrance than when the driver has to stop at the farrier’s to have his horse’s shoe fastened; for if he went on without attending to that, it may be that ere long he would come to a stop of a far more serious kind.—C. H. Spurgeon.