PRAYER-ULTIMATE
A cry for help from the
heart of a childlike believer is sweet praise in the ears of God. Nothing
exalts Him more than the collapse of self-reliance which issues in passionate
prayer for help. “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and
you shall glorify me” (Ps. 50:15). Prayer is the translation into a thousand different
words of a single sentence: “Apart from me [Christ] you can do nothing” (John
15:5).
John Piper
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, Bethlehem Baptist
Church, 2002, p. 55.
I have now concentrated all
my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and
live wholly to Him.