The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
Interpretation
True prayer is about a continuous journey towards God, rather than just making repeated requests.
G. Campbell Morgan emphasizes that the essence of a genuine prayer life is not found in repeatedly asking for things, but in fostering a continual relationship with God that propels one to grow spiritually and seek a higher purpose. It highlights the importance of a dynamic and forward-looking faith, where prayer is an integral part of an ongoing journey toward a deeper connection with the divine.
In practice
In a sermon about spiritual growth, you might say, 'As G. Campbell Morgan reminds us, the prayer life is about moving upward and onward, cultivating a closer relationship with God.'
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul β by doing good for goodβs sake β that is spirituality. β
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake.
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede
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