We Will Never Do Prayer Right without the Best Circumstances to Do It Right

Let us thoroughly understand ourselves and understand, also, this great business of prayer. Our one great business is prayer, and we will never do it well unless we fasten our selves to it by all the binding force of the Holy Spirit. We will never do prayer well without bring together the best conditions for doing it well. Satan has suffered so much by good praying that all his devious, shrewd and ensnaring devices will be used to cripple our prayers performances.

We must, with all the fastenings we can find, strap ourselves to prayer. To let loose the fastenings in time and place is to open the door to Satan. To be exact, prompt, unwavering, and careful in even the little things, is to protect ourselves against the Evil One

With Moses we see that these great features of prayer are prominent. He never beats the air nor fights a make-believe battle. The most serious and strenuous business of his serious and strenuous life was prayer. He is always at prayer with the intense earnestness of his soul. Intimate as he was with God, his intimacy did not decrease the necessity of prayer. This intimacy only brought clearer insight into the nature and necessity of prayer, and led him to see the greater obligations to pray, and to discover the larger results of praying. In reviewing one of the many crises that Israel went through, when the very existence of the nation was jeopardized, he writes: “I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights.” Wonderful praying brings wonderful results! Moses knew how to do wonderful praying, and God knew how to give wonderful results.

Prayer, by God’s very oath, is put in the very stones of God’s foundations, as eternal as its companion, “And men shall pray for him continually.” This is the everlasting condition which advances His cause, and makes prayer powerfully aggressive. People are to always pray for it. Its strength, beauty and aggression lie in their prayers. Its power lies simply in its power to pray. No power can be found elsewhere but in its ability to pray. “For my house shall be called the house of prayer for all people.” It is based on prayer, and carried on by the same means.