![]() “Tyrants, authoritarians, and activists all hate the sound of laughter. I want those who never prayed yet, to arise and call upon God, and I want those who do pray, to see that they are not praying amiss. My heart’s desire and prayer in sending forth this tract is to promote a spirit of prayerfulness. I want the Church to be a praying church. I want the Christians of our day to be praying Christians. I want the times we live in to be praying times. Sermons and books and tracts, and comittee-meetings and the company of good men, are all good in their way, but they will never make up for the neglect of private prayer… Here is the pith and marrow of practical Christianity. Oh, let us keep an eye continually upon our private devotions. As search behavior migrated on a large scale from. Blogging is an effective technique for building an audience of new readers because it capitalizes on the ways that we search for information whenever we have a need: the Internet. In conclusion, I’ll simply get out of the way and let Ryle speak for himself: If you haven’t yet, it’s now time to set up a blog on your website. 18:22), spiritually (Jude 1:20), as a regular part of the business of life (Dan. In particular, he commends to us the importance of praying with reverence (Eccles. Yet Ryle doesn’t stop at condemning such neglect he also gives attention to how a person ought to pray. How dreadful this seems but if the secrets of men were only known, how common. They have not one word to say to Him in whose hand are their life and breath, and all things, and from Whose mouth they must one day receive their everlasting sentence. They behave like creatures without souls. They have judgment and eternity before them. Cutting to the heart of the issue, he tolerates no excuses, no pretense, no question dodging. Prayer is the spiritual pulse.”Īccording to Ryle, there is no duty in the Christian religion so neglected as prayer. For prayer is one of the chief things by which man may measure his status before God. “Tell me what a man’s prayers are,” Ryle writes, “and I will soon tell you the state of his soul. It’s a trumpet blast – and a loud one – charging God’s children to shake off spiritual apathy and give prayer its due priority. Rooted in Holy Scripture, A Call to Prayer is one of those solid Christian books which I cannot recommend highly enough. Ryle’s A Call to Prayer is short but incredibly powerful, and not to be missed. Throughout a meaty 46 pages, Ryle exhorts the believer to consider the power and (above all) the absolute necessity of prayer.Ĭombination of candor and warmth, and firmly Much like his other book How Readest Thou?, J.C.
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