Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach

Prayer Series XXIV

We continue with excerpts from Reformed Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer.

Serious Reminders and Warnings about Prayer

No one except a believer can truly pray.

Martin Luther

To pray without labouring is to mock God: to labour without prayer is to rob God of His glory.

Robert Haldane

The heart without the tongue may pray with fruit and feeling (1 Samuel 1:10), but the tongue without the heart is nothing but vain babbling (Matthew 6:7).

James Ussher

Those who neglect all prayer, and those who satisfy themselves with a form of prayer, which they utter without knowledge or affection . . . greatly sin against God.

John Flavel

Bible Proof Texts: Matthew 6:7, Job 13:16, Isaiah 1:15.

Summary Conclusions

Prayerless people are not genuine Christians

John Charles Ryle

What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer?

David Brown

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RELATED QUOTES AND NOTES:

R.C. Sproul’s Warning Concerning Prayer