“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him” (1 Jn 5:14-15).
Leonard Ravenhill writes in Why Revival Tarries, “The secret of praying is praying in secret. Books on prayer are good, but not enough. As books on cooking are good, but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray and we must pray to learn to pray.…One may read about prayer, marvel at the endurance of Moses, or stagger at the weeping and groaning of Jeremiah, and yet not be able to stammer the ABCs of intercessory prayer. As the bullets unspent bag no game, so the prayer-heart unburdened gathers no spoil.
“‘In God’s name, I beseech you, let prayer nourish your soul as meals nourish your body!’ said the faithful Fenelon.”