Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the evolving nature of prayer throughout different stages of life.
Charles Spurgeon's quote illustrates how prayer can take on various forms depending on one's life situation. It begins with the innocent and simple prayers of a child, transitions to the passionate pleas of a believer in struggle, and culminates in the serene prayers of a saint approaching death, all highlighting the profound connection between faith and the experience of life.
In practice
During a sermon on the power of faith, one might say, 'As Charles Spurgeon noted, prayer is the lisping of the believing infant...'
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
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