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.
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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.
Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.
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