Luther on Prayer
"Let this be for you an encouragement, that with all diligence and earnestness it may become your habit to pray. For next to the preaching of the Gospel, in which God speaks with us and gives us all His grace and blessings, the highest and foremost work we can do is to speak with Him through prayer and receive from Him what He gives us. We have this great need of prayer, for by it we are truly able to keep what we have and to defend it against our enemies - the devil and the world. By our prayer we seek and find what we are to receive. Therefore prayer becomes our comfort, strength, and consolation, as well as our protection against all enemies and our victory over them."
-Martin Luther
Exposition of John 16:23, 1537
Exposition of John 16:23, 1537
4 comments:
Amen my dear friend, thanks so much for sharing this.
Wasn't the whole idea of "being too busy NOT to pray" attributed to Luther too? ;) Nice quote!
good stuff.
Beth - yes, it was something along the lines of "I have so much more to do today than I usually do that I will have to pray several extra hours before I can even start." Something like that.
He was also known for calling people he disagreed with "blockheads", "swine", "whore of Babylon" and many other gems...amazing God chose to use such a man!
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