Magnificent Prayer #247
Magnificent Prayer #247
He departed again into a mountain himself alone.
John 6:15 KJV
Man needs to be alone with God. Without this, God cannot have the opportunity to shine into his heart, to transform his nature by His divine working, to take possession and to fill him with the fullness of God. Man needs to be alone with God, to yield to the presence and the power of His holiness, of His life and of His love. Christ on earth needed it; He could not live the life of a Son here in the flesh, without at times separating Himself entirely from His surroundings and being alone with God. How much more must this be indispensable to us!
When our Lord Jesus gave us the blessed command to enter our inner chamber, shut the door, pray to our Father in secret, all alone, He gave us the promise that the Father would hear such prayers, and mightily answer them in our life before men. What a great privilege is the opportunity of daily prayer to begin each morning. Let it be the one thing our hearts are set on, seeking and finding, discovering and meeting God.
ANDREW MURRAY
I love the lonely creative hours with God.
MADAME GUYON
Pray About It: If we think about it, we realize it’s true: It’s not possible for us to give our attention to God unless we’re alone. We’re too easily distracted by life. We may, of course, pray anytime, anywhere—but for our deep communion with God we must be shut away.
We must come to the place of loving those lonely hours with God. We can do so when we think about the beauty of being alone with God.
At the age of eighty-one the great Christian preacher, John Nelson Darby, wrote: “Do not reckon yourself lonely: it is a good thing to be alone with God. I have always been alone but I bless God for it.”
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