CLOSET PRAYERS | Learn How to Pray

By Charles A. Rhodus

 Learn How to Pray


Matt 6:5-8

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.


Thayers Lexicon says that a closet is an inner chamber or secret room.

 

Re- Matthew 6:6 thy closet / Prayer is the most secret intercourse of the soul with God, and as it were the conversation of one heart with another. The world is too profane and treacherous to be of the secret. We must shut the door against it: endeavour to forget it, with all the affairs which busy and amuse it. Prayer requires retirement, at least of the heart. Adam Clarke's Commentary,

 

Matt 14:23

And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

 

Mark 1:35-36

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.


Pray longer / Pray louder / Pray until you are free!

 

·                 LEONARD RAVENHILL- NO CHURCH IS STRONGER THAN ITS PRAYER MEETING

·                 Prayer is not about what it does to or for God. It is about RELATIONSHIP. We are not a gimme gimme people. Prayer is about what it does for us.


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