by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Prayer to God manifestly must hold
great importance to those who would be truly spiritual. While God’s Word to us
is always to have first place in our lives, prayer must certainly have second
place; indeed, we must even study God’s Word with prayer for understanding and
willingness to obey.
The Scriptures everywhere exhort
God’s people to pray, and in the Epistles of Paul we find greater cause,
greater reason and greater incentive than ever to pray — to pray “always,” “in
everything,” “without ceasing.” The example of our Lord and of His apostles —
particularly Paul — is a call to prayer. Every need, every anxiety, every
heartache is a call to prayer. Every temptation, every defeat — yes, and every
victory is a call to prayer.
Yet, merely praying, or even
spending much time in prayer, is not in itself evidence of true spirituality.
Many carnal Christians, still “babes in Christ,” and even many unsaved people,
spend much time in prayer. But the truly spiritual believer will join the
Apostle Paul in saying: “I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the
understanding also” (I Cor. 14:15). “With the spirit”: earnestly, fervently,
pouring out to God my adoration, my supplications and my thanks. And “with the
understanding also”: intelligently, with a clear grasp of what the Scriptures,
rightly divided, say about God’s will and His provisions for my prayer life in
this present dispensation of grace.
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