The Bible in Prayer
The third suggestion needs much emphasis today:
give the Book of God its place in prayer.
Prayer is not simply talking to God.
It is listening first, then talking.
Prayer needs three organs of the head: the ear, a tongue and the eye.
First an ear to hear what God says, then a tongue to speak, then an eye to look out for the result.
Bible study is the listening side of prayer. The purpose of God comes in through the ear, passes through the heart taking on the tinge of your personality, and goes out at the tongue as prayer.
It is pathetic what a time God has getting a hearing down here. He is ever speaking but even where there may be some inclination to hear, the sounds of earth are choking in our ears the sound of His voice.
God speaks in His Word. The most we know of God comes to us here. This Book is God in print. It was inspired, and it is inspired.
God Himself speaks in this Book.
That puts it in a list by itself, quite apart from all others. Studying it keenly, intelligently, reverently will reveal God's great will.
What He says will utterly change what you will say.
adapted from the book
Quiet Talks on Prayer by S.D. Gordon, 1904
