He who bade me preach to every creature did not bid me exempt one soul from my message. And I do. I put the Gospel to those that feel themselves to be insensible and stupid in everything, and who write themselves down among the fools. Jesus has come to seek and save poor, lost, ruined, dead sinners, and I pray Him to look on you at this time. We rush, without preparation or thought, into the presence of God.
Prayer is the product of a humble heart, a believing heart, and a heart renewed by grace.
I pray that the LORD will give us a heart to pray. We believe, that the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith, is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistible grace of God. If he does, your sitting under his ministry may prove to you the means of begetting faith in you. But if he does not, you cannot expect God's blessings. What a curse to be one of the stagnant ponds of formality exhaling the putridity of hypocrisy.