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Habitual Prayer

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 15.

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Habitual Prayer

HABITUAL PRAYER.—The habit of prayer must be carefully cultivated. In vain shall we hope to keep our hearts, if we are unacquainted with this duty and privilege. Nothing under the grace of God, is so essential to the successful resistance of temptation, as a devotional frame of mind, a constant dependence upon the grace of the Saviour.—This frame of mind while it is the best preparation for active duties, is also a great source of comfort to the Christian, as he travels through the wilderness of this world. For it is in short, the effect of God's Holy Spirit; it is God's keeping his heart, and fixing his thoughts upon heaven, raising him above those allurements which daily ensnare and carry others to their ruin. O, then let us pray unto him by whose omniscient eye our inmost thoughts are every moment surveyed; "Search me O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."