Today Dan and I are switching. I would like to give you all the advice of Isaac Watts on prayer and a short result of this sort of praying. Isaac Watts is perhaps the greatest hymn writer that ever lived. Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
Needy people ought to be prayerful people.
In almost every other realm of life we are quick to do what is to our own advantatge. Only a person who is careless about his own spiritual good can neglect prayer. Some use of prayer is necessary if we would have our profession of being Christians taken seriously. The blessings of God on our own souls, families, churches and nations cannot be expected while prayer lies so neglected and is performed so half-hartedly. If the need of this age is the blessing of God, then prayer is the means of obtaining it.