And I can offer his public worship in no other place, but in a building of the same nature, in a house built of more of the same stones. The gifts of his Spirit. These they offer up, and nothing else. The seasons of the true worship stand in the will of God. They are gifts, and the time of them stands in the will of the Giver.
Prayer is a gift.
Indeed it is a hard matter either to speak the word of the Lord, or to hear the word of the Lord. Search the Scriptures. The enemy hath done this, by God's permission. And this is the way of antichrist in kingdoms and nations, even to set up a formal way of worship, and by it to fight against the true power. From antichrist's beginning, all the time of his reign, until his overthrow.