"IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION." Our Father is ever willing to receive us in prayer. In prayer then we must approach God as a Father, ask of Him what we really need, and expect to receive according to His wisdom and will. Our wants are constantly recurring, therefore our prayers should be constantly ascending. The ear of God is always open. He is ever ready to listen to us. He invites, exhorts, and commands us to pray always, in everything. Every object that meets the eye, every circumstance of life, every employment in which we engage, are worthy matters for prayer. The believer should cultivate the habit of prayer. He should look up to God for all he needs, through all he sees, whenever he has a moment to spare. The prayers of a Christian are pleasant to God; He says, "Let me hear thy voice, let me see thy countenance; for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely." The believer should pray as naturally and as constantly as he breathes, for prayer is the breath of the soul. Beloved, if your prayers dwindle into a mere duty, is but occasionally offered, or become burdensome, it is clear that you are in a most unhealthy state. Pray for revival mercy from God!

For Meditation:
Through the skies when the thunder is hurled,
The child to its parent will flee;
Thus amid the clamour of the world,
I turn, O my Father, to Thee;
The spirit of prayer in Thy mercy impart,
And take up Thy constant abode in my heart.