- PRAYER: AN INTIMATE ENCOUNTER-

What is it about that makes it so special, so essential?

Spurgeon recognized prayer as more than mere thoughts or words lifted heavenward, but as an intimate encounter with the all-caring Father and all-powerful God of the universe:

Prayer links us with the Eternal, the Omnipotent, the infinite, and hence it is our chief resort. ...

Be sure that you are with God, and then you may be sure that God is with you.

We do not bow the knee merely because it is a duty, and a commendable spiritual exercise, but because we believe that, into the ear of the eternal God, we speak our wants, and that His ear is linked with a heart feeling for us, and a hand working on a our behalf.

To us, true prayer is true power.

Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.