PRAYER:
WRONG USE OF

Many prayer meetings are being called these days. And no wonder, for the need is great. But if my observation is correct much effort is wasted; very little comes of them.

The reason is that motives are not sound.

Too many praying persons seek to use prayer as a means to ends that are not wholly pure. Prayer is often conceived to be little more than a technique for self-advancement, a heavenly method of achieving earthly success.…

To pray effectively we must want what God wants—that and only that is to pray in the will of God.

John 14:3–4; James 4:3; 1 John 5:14–15

Keys to the Deeper Life, 59, 61.