The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
Interpretation
True prayer is about a continuous journey towards God, rather than just making repeated requests.
G. Campbell Morgan emphasizes that the essence of a genuine prayer life is not found in repeatedly asking for things, but in fostering a continual relationship with God that propels one to grow spiritually and seek a higher purpose. It highlights the importance of a dynamic and forward-looking faith, where prayer is an integral part of an ongoing journey toward a deeper connection with the divine.
In practice
In a sermon about spiritual growth, you might say, 'As G. Campbell Morgan reminds us, the prayer life is about moving upward and onward, cultivating a closer relationship with God.'
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
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