Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" --Jeremiah 6:16

 

19 April, 2007   comments: (0) Classic Devotion   There's No Substitute For Much Time in Prayer    Quoting John Welch . . . One of the most remarkable men in Scotland's history was John Welch, son-in-law of John Knox, the great Scottish reformer. He was not so well known as his famous father-in-law but in some respects he was a far more remarkable man than John Knox himself. Most people have the idea that it was John Knox who prayed: "Give me Scotland or I die". It was not, it was John Welch, his son-in-law. John Welch put it on record before he died that he counted that day ill-spent that he did not put seven or eight hours into secret prayer. When John Welch came to die, an old Scotchman who had known him from his boyhood said of him, "John Welch was a type of Christ". Of course, that was an inaccurate use of language, but what the old Scotchman meant was, that Jesus Christ had stamped the impress of His character on John Welch. When had Jesus Christ done it? In those seven or eight hours of daily communion with Himself. I do not suppose that God has called many of us, if any of us, to put seven or eight hours a day into prayer, but I am confident God has called most of us, if not every one of us, to put more time into prayer than we now do. That is one of the great secrets of holiness; indeed, it is the only way in which we can become really holy and continue holy. We often used to sing a hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy." I wish we sang it more in these days. It takes time to be holy, one cannot be holy in a hurry, and much of the time that it takes to be holy must go into secret prayer. Some people express surprise that professing Christians today are so little like their Lord, but when I stop to think how little time the average Christian today puts into secret prayer the thing that astonished me is, not that we are so little like the Lord, but that we are as much like the Lord as we are. From:  Above excerpt from RA Torrey's book 'The Power of Prayer'   Posted by: Jim B.   Link: http://www.oldtruth.com/blog.cfm/id.2.pid.454   Be the first to post a comment about this article        Home  |   About  |  Videos   |  Calvinism