PRAYER:
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD; PRAYER: WRONG USE OF; COMMUNION WITH GOD

Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. Almost every book on prayer deals with the “get” element mainly. How to get things we want from God occupies most of the space. Now, we gladly admit that we may ask for and receive specific gifts and benefits in answer to prayer, but we must never forget that the highest kind of prayer is never the making of requests. Prayer at its holiest moment is the entering into God to a place of such blessed union as makes miracles seem tame and remarkable answers to prayer appear something very far short of wonderful by comparison.

Psalm 27:4, 8; Psalm 139:17–18; John 17:20–24; Revelation 3:20

The Set of the Sail, 14.