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October 18
SPENDING MUCH TIME IN PRAYER

Scripture: Psalm 55:16, 17 “As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.  Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.”

    The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character, and have most powerfully affected the world for him, have been men who spent so much time with God as to make it a notable feature of their lives.  Charles Simeon devoted the hours from four till eight in the morning to God.  Mr. Wesley spent two hours daily in prayer.  He began at four in the morning…
    Luther said:  “If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day.  I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.” 
    … Joseph Alleine arose at four o’clock for his business of praying till eight. If he heard other tradesmen plying their business before he was up he would exclaim: “O how this shames me! Doth not my Master deserve more than theirs? 
     It is not only important that we pray, but that we spend much time with God in prayer. The more time spent alone with God, the closer our communion with Him and the better we will know Him and His will for our lives. 
     So we see our life must be a life of prayer.  Praying evening and morning and noon, and as Ephesians 6:18 says, “Praying always with all prayer and supplications in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;” Psalm 116:1, 2 says, “I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.  Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,
therefore will I Call upon him as long as I live.”
    When we spend much time in prayer, we get to know God better and His Word better and His will for our lives better.  Make much of prayer in your life and He will do great things for you.