"What evidence can be more convincing? It is a symptom that cannot mislead. The praying soul is a quickened soul. The prayerless soul is a lifeless soul. The individual that has never truly prayed has never known what one throb of spiritual life is. He may content himself with the external form—he may kneel in the outer court of the tabernacle, and, as the holy Leighton expresses it, "breathe his tune and air of words," and yet continue an utter stranger to true prayer."
How many times am I guilty of merely kneeling in the outer court in this way? What a sense of dread filled me when I read the words and felt the sting of personal guilt from lack of prayer. Then all at once as I sorrowed over my lacking came the familiar and comforting sense that is only felt by a lively soul inhabited by the great comforter sent by God Himself bearing witness once again that I am His and He is ever present.
Take joy Christian! The pain of realizing fault is but for a moment for the redeemed. He is ever ready to accept our continuing repentance and draw us closer to Him. It is His purpose to do it! so rejoice in the Beloved and pray! Pray more! No less than Jesus said to the woman publicly outed for her sins, He says to us today "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
(Quote taken from page 13 of THE HOLY SPIRIT, An Experimental and Practical View by Octavius Winslow)
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