PASTORAL
MINISTRY: DEPENDENCE ON GOD; PRAYER: NECESSITY OF; PREACHING: PREPARATION FOR

It is written of Moses that he “went in before the Lord to speak with him … and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel.” This is the Biblical norm from which we depart to our own undoing and to the everlasting injury of the souls of men. No man has any moral right to go before the people who has not first been long before the Lord. No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men. And the prophet of God should spend more time in the secret place praying than he spends in the public place preaching.

Exodus 34:34; Galatians 1:13–17

The Root of the Righteous, 121.