BIBLE-INTERPRETATION-PRAYER
Go to God by prayer for a key to unlock the mysteries of His Word. It is not the plodding but the praying soul, that will get this treasure of Scripture knowledge. God often brings a truth to the Christian’s hand as a return of prayer, which he had long hunted for in vain with much labour and study: “There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets” (Dan. 2:28); and where doth He reveal the secrets of His world but at the throne of grace?
William Gurnall
Gleanings from William Gurnall, Hamilton Smith, Soli Deo Gloria, 1995, p. 106-107.
Prayer without study is
presumption. Study without prayer is
atheism.
Bishop Sanderson
Quoted in: Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry, p. 212, by permission Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
Some say pray and pray and
don’t lean on the unspiritual work of human study. Others say, study and study because God is not going to tell you
the meaning of a word in prayer. But
the Bible will not have anything to do with this dichotomy. We must study and accurately handle the Word
of God, and we must pray or we will not see in the Word the one thing needful,
the glory of God in the face of Christ.
John Piper
Remember, Christ’s scholars
must study upon their knees.
C.H. Spurgeon
It is as impossible to
understand the Scriptures without the Spirit’s help as it is to read a sundial
without the sun.
Derek Prime and Alistair
Begg
On Being a Pastor, Moody Press, 2004, p. 78.