A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.
Man can as well live physically without breathing, as spiritually without praying.
Without that, these monarchs of the deep could not exist. And something like that is imposed on them by a physical necessity, the Christian has to do by a spiritual one. It is by ever and anon ascending up to God, by rising through prayer into a loftier, purer region for supplies of divine grace, that he maintains his spiritual life. God's People in Prayer, the name says it all. This is a very special and important ministry.