I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
Interpretation
Prayer is a constant part of life and leads to receiving answers.
In this quote, George Muller emphasizes the importance of integrating prayer into daily life. He suggests that prayer is not limited to specific times, but rather a continuous connection with the divine that brings guidance and answers throughout oneβs experiences and actions.
In practice
During a motivational speech about faith, one could use this quote to inspire the audience to incorporate prayer into their daily lives.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.
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