October Surprise, October Nineteenth, 2023 - A Call to Fullness Pt. 2

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Today's episode is a call to contemplate our prayer lives and ask God if the words of J.C. Ryle have any message for us.

J.C. Ryle

"I commend to you the importance of fullness in prayer. I do not forget that our Lord warns us against the example of the Pharisees, who, for pretense, made long prayers; and commands us when we pray not to use vain repetitions. But I cannot forget, on the other hand, that he has given his own sanction to large and long devotions by continuing all night in prayer to God."

"I am afraid the private devotions of many are most painfully scanty and limited; just enough to prove they are alive and no more. They really seem to want little from God. They seem to have little to confess, little to ask for, and little to thank him for. Alas, this is altogether wrong. Nothing is more common than to hear believers complaining that they do not get on. They tell us that they do not grow in grace as they could desire.

"Is it not rather to be suspected that many have quite as much grace as they ask for? Is it not the true account of many, that they have little, because they ask little? The cause of their weakness is to be found in their own stunted, dwarfish, clipped, contracted, hurried, narrow, diminutive prayers."

Do we really have "little to confess, little to ask for, and little to be thankful for?

Sweet Jesus, in light of eternity and the enormity of Thy gift, I pray Thou wilt forgive every weak "stunted, dwarfish, clipped, contracted, hurried, narrow, diminutive prayer."

"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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