Right and Wrong Prayer
The richest blessing that prayer can bring--is to bring us into closer communion and agreement with the all-holy and the all-loving God. The very first essential to all right prayer--is unconditional submissiveness to God's will. "Find your happiness in God--and He will give you the askings of your heart." This is the exact rendering of Psalm 37:4, and it throws a flood of light upon the important question of--what is right prayer--and what is wrong prayer. A great deal of prayer is born of selfishness , and takes on the airs of dictating to our Heavenly Father. It is not humble supplication , born of a devout, submissive spirit; but it amounts to a demand . God's promises to His children are not unconditional ; and we may not presume to dictate to the God of wisdom and of love. What is laid down distinctly, as the indispensable quality of right asking in the above q...