There were three young girls who came to the city to study. They took an apartment together. They were from faithful homes and they were faithful. Within a year they were not professing. A worker went to them and asked them what had happened. They said, “We stopped praying. We continued coming to meetings but we quit praying in the secret place.” One of those girls came back into fellowship carrying a burden and bearing a cross that wouldn’t have been necessary. In His mercy, God gives grace and she is doing what she can in a divided home. Her little boy has to go with his father who has no thought of God or truth, and the mother is doing her part to bring the little girl with her. This was a burden because at a time in her experience, she had stopped praying. The other two are still outside.
There was trouble in a church and two brothers were in that church around which the trouble centered. One of God’s servants went to the one and said, “When was the last time you bowed your knees beside your bed and prayed?” He answered, “Fourteen years ago.” The worker went to the other with the same question and he said, “I have never bowed myself to pray.”
A life without prayer is a life without direction. You can find the reference to that in Moses’ experience when he asked God for His presence to go with him. “If thy presence go not with us, carry us not up hence.”
A life without prayer is a life without strength. Jesus is the example when He prayed in the garden those three times and the sweat was like drops of blood. He got the victory in His secret life and the angel came and strengthened Him.
A life without prayer is a life without Godly wisdom that we need so much in order that our lives might be lived successfully and not in vain. Wisdom is the principal thing therefore in all thy getting get wisdom. James tells us how to get it. Without wisdom and without prayer we will die as one of the foolish people.
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