June 23

Behold he prayeth.—Acts 9:11.

HAVE I this evidence of being truly converted, that I love the Spirit and the place of prayer? Do I pray with earnestness and faith, as Paul prayed? Do I feel that it is as impossible for the soul truly to live, without prayer, as it is for the body to live without breath? Do I believe that to be prayerless is to be graceless? When I pray for what seems a right object, do I do all in my power to act for it?

Sinning will make us leave off praying; or praying will make us leave off sinning.—DYER.

What God has promised, we must pray for. He will be inquired of, and especially for divine instruction and guidance.—MATTHEW HENRY.

If we do but lisp, even though we silently address God without opening our lips, yet we cry to him in the inmost recesses of the heart, and God always listens to the sincere direction of the heart to him.—CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.

Prayer is the Christian's vital breath;

The Christian's native air;

His watchword at the gates of death;

He enters heaven with prayer.

O thou by whom we come to God,

The Life, the Truth, the Way;

The path of prayer thyself hast trod;

Lord! teach us how to pray!

—MONTGOMERY.