We have been looking at the topic of prayer through the words of Samuel Chadwick from his book, The Path of Prayer.

He brings the point that “importunity prevails” in prayer. “Importunity” is defined as being persistent or demanding.

“Our Lord Himself prayed with intensity and importunity. He rose early to pray. He spent all nights in prayer.”

(Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer, page 46)

We are invited to plead and persist until our prayers prevail. Prayer is not easy and most will find, it actually is work. It demands our emotions, our concentration, and our intensity. We wrestle in prayer with so much that is beyond our control.

“Maybe Coleridge [referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge] was not far wrong when he spoke of prayer as the highest energy of which the human heart is capable and the greatest achievement of the Christian’s warfare on earth.”

(Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer, page 47)

Chadwick goes on to share the paradoxes of prayer. Join me at Woman to Woman Ministries HERE as we look at these paradoxes and the cost of prayer.

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