Seasons of Prayer

This, the Christmas season, is a call to pray. But then, every season is. Albert Richardson says it very well in his book, The Kneeling Christian. "Do we really believe that our Lord never made a promise which He could not, or would not, fulfill? Our Savior's three great commands for definite action were: Pray ye. Do ye. Go ye."

"... without obedience to the Pray ye, it is of little or no use at all to Do this or to Go. ... In fact, it can be shown that all the desires of success and all the failure in the spiritual life and in Christian work is due to defective or insufficient prayer. Unless we pray aright, we cannot live aright. This may appear, at first sight, to be gross exaggeration, but the more we think it over in the light Scripture throws upon it, the more convinced we will be of the truth of this statement."

"For, after all, prayer is not just putting into action good resolutions to pray. Like David, we need to cry, Create in me a clean heart, O God, before we can pray aright (Psalm 51:10). And the inspired words of the apostle of love need to be heeded today as much as ever before: Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight (1John 3:21-22).

Let us make this holiday season and every season of our lives a season of heartfelt prayer.

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