UNCEASING PRAYER
Pray continually.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Our Lord Jesus Christ in these words assures you that you may pray without ceasing. There is no time when you may not pray. There is not one unholy moment in the hour, nor one unacceptable hour in the day or year. Wherever we seek the Lord with true hearts He is found by us; whenever we cry to Him He hears us. You have here permission given to come to the mercy seat when you will, for the veil of the Most Holy place is rent in two from top to bottom, and our access to the mercy seat is undisputed and indisputable. The monarch whose palace was in Shushan would have none approach him unless he sent for them; but the King of kings has called for all His people, and they may come at all times. They were slain who went before the king Ahasuerus, unless he stretched out his scepter to them; but our King never withdraws His scepter, it is always stretched out, and whoever desires to come to Him may come now, and come at any time. Among the Persians there were some few of the nobility who had the peculiar and special right of an audience with the king at any time they chose. That peculiar right of a few and of the very great is the privilege of every child of God. He may come before the King at all times.
The dead of night is not too late for God; the breaking of the morning, when the first gray light is seen, is not too early for the Most High; at midday He is not too busy; and when the evening gathers He is not too weary with His children’s prayers. To pray continually is a most sweet and precious permit to the believer to pour out his heart at all times before the Lord. The doors of the temple of divine love shall not be shut. Nothing can set a barrier between a praying soul and its God. The road of angels and of prayers is ever open. Let us but send out the dove of prayer and we may be certain that she will return to us with an olive branch of peace in her mouth. Evermore the Lord has regard for the pleadings of His servants and waits to be gracious to them.
Jesus, You opened the doors of the temple forever. May my heart always dwell there. Amen.
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