Secret Prayer Time!
"But when you pray, go away by
yourself, all alone, and shut the
door behind you and pray to
your Father secretly."
Matthew 6: 6
Scottish minister Andrew Bonar wrote,
“I should count the days, not by what I have of
new instances of usefulness, but by the times
I have been enabled to pray in faith, and to
take hold upon God. Prayer should make
time for itself.”
Every part of modern life thwarts the needed
habit of secret prayer. Our schedules are busy,
our phones are too engaging, our world is too
noisy, and our fatigue is too great.
Yet without prayer—systematic,
secret,
sacred prayer—we cannot manage our
schedules, control our phones, quiet
our world, or
counteract our fatigue.
Secret prayer brings us in the presence of the
energizing God who stills and strengthens us,
who teaches us ways to Himself and the paths
to avoid, and who fills us with the confidence
of His
own infinite power.
Make time for daily secret prayer. When we live
with this attitude of prayer, we’re always in His
presence. Pray today that your whole life might
be a prayer as you walk day by day with Him.
"The Lord…made me feel that I
must be as much with Him alone
as with souls in public."
Andrew Bonar