PASTORAL
MINISTRY: PRAYER; PRAYER: HINDRANCES

To pray successfully is the first lesson the preacher must learn if he is to preach fruitfully; yet prayer is the hardest thing he will ever be called upon to do and, being human, it is the one act he will be tempted to do less frequently than any other. He must set his heart to conquer by prayer, and that will mean that he must first conquer his own flesh, for it is the flesh that hinders prayer always.

Matthew 26:40–41; Romans 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:24–27

God Tells the Man Who Cares, 63.