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
Without
prayer the study of Scripture can turn into a merely intellectual exercise.
Prayer without Scripture will lack needed motivation and guidance.
Bill Thrasher
A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 84-85.