The Joy Which Answers To Prayer Give,

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.

It Is A Common Temptation Of Satan To Make Us Give Up The Reading Of The Word And Prayer When Our Enjoyment Is Gone; As If It Were Of No Use To Read The Scriptures When We Do Not Enjoy Them, And As If It Were Of No Use To Pray When We Have No Spirit Of Prayer...

God Delights To Increase The Faith Of His Children. We Ought, Instead Of Wanting No Trials Before Victory, No Exercise For Patience, To Be Willing To Take Them From God's Hands As A Means. Trials, Obstacles, Difficulties And Sometimes Defeats, Are The Very Food Of Faith.

It Often Astonishes Me That I Did Not See The Importance Of Meditation Upon Scripture Earlier In My Christian Life. As The Outward Man Is Not Fit For Work For Any Length Of Time Unless He Eats, So It Is With The Inner Man. What Is The Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God -not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Runs Through A Pipe. No, We Must Consider What We Read, Ponder Over It, And Apply It To Our Hearts.

The Joy Which Answers To Prayer Give, Cannot Be Described; And The Impetus Which They Afford To The Spiritual Life Is Exceedingly Great.