Do I Believe in Prayer?

Simply sharing a quote with you,
kind friends, this weekend.
(It came to me this past week by email).
May the LORD use it in our lives for good.

Do I believe in prayer?

Yes!

May the LORD help me
to truly live like I do!

**My Dad (Camille's) is an artist ~
he used pencil to draw these praying hands
while a Bible School student in 1964 ~

It was a gift to us from my Dad
a few years ago and it is very precious to us both.

"There Is Not Enough Private Prayer!"

"There are few professing Christians,
it may be feared,
who strive to imitate Christ in the
matter of private devotion."

There is abundance of hearing,
reading, talking, professing, visiting,
contributing to the poor,
subscribing to societies and
teaching at schools.

But is there, together with all this,
a due proportion of private prayer?

Are believing men and women sufficiently
careful to be frequently alone with God?

These are humbling and
heart-searching questions.
But we shall find it useful
to give them an answer.

Why is it that there is so much
apparent religious working,
and yet so little result in
positive conversions to God -
so many sermons, and so few souls saved -
so much machinery, and so little effect produced -
so much running here and there,
and yet so few brought to Christ?

Why is all this?

The reply is short and simple.

There is not enough private prayer.

The cause of Christ does not need less working,
but it does need among the workers more praying.
Let us each examine ourselves,
and amend our ways.

The most successful workmen
in the Lord's vineyard,
are those who are like their Master,
often and much upon their knees."

~ J.C. Ryle ~

Quoted from:
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels:
Luke volume 1, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986],
139, 140. {Luke 5:12-16}