Prayer is not a way of making use of God;
prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God
in order that He should be able to make use of us.
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is
that we talk too much and listen too little.
When prayer is at its highest
we wait in silence for God's voice to us;
we linger in His presence for His peace and His power
to flow over us and around us;
we lean back in His everlasting arms
and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
- William Barclay-
prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God
in order that He should be able to make use of us.
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is
that we talk too much and listen too little.
When prayer is at its highest
we wait in silence for God's voice to us;
we linger in His presence for His peace and His power
to flow over us and around us;
we lean back in His everlasting arms
and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
- William Barclay-
