Prayer

My reading for today came from Mrs. Charles Cowman's "Streams in the Desert." This is the original version of the book, NOT the "updated for modern readers version." I have an old 1949 edition gleaned from my grandmothers attic years ago and also a newly printed one that was VERY hard to find. It seems with the dumbing down of America all the old classic devotionals are being dumbed down too!

In part the message was:

No doubt by praying we learn to pray, and the more we pray the oftener we can pray, and the better we can pray. He who prays in fits and starts is never likely to attain to that effectual, fervent prayer which availeth much.

Great power in prayer is within our reach, but we must go to work to obtain it.

How true this is. Prayer is like exercise. The more we do it the easier it gets. When we first try it is difficult and so easy to want to give up but then as we perservere and make it a part of our "daily routine" we find it easier and easier and we spend longer and longer at it with little effort.