Earnest, Persistent Prayer
By Spurgeon
I FIND that in the original, the word for "helping together," implies very earnest work. Some people’s prayers have no work in them; but the only prayer that prevails with God is a real workingman’s prayer—where the petitioner, like a Samson, shakes the gates of mercy, and labors to pull them up rather than be denied an entrance. We do not want finger-end prayers, which only touch the burden, we need shoulder-prayers, which bear a load of earnestness and are not to be denied their desire. We do not want those dainty run-away knocks at the door of mercy, but we ask for the knocking of a man who means to have, and means to stop at mercy’s gate till it opens and all his need shall be supplied.—Spurgeon.