Summer School

During one of his talks at Celebration Midwest, Terry Virgo recommended a book by Andrew Murray called With Christ in the School of Prayer. I'm just a few pages into it and already feel encouraged to pray more and eager to encounter God in this way. Here are a couple of excerpts:

"I feel sure that as long as we look on prayer chiefly as the means of maintaining our own Christian life, we shall not know fully what it is meant to be. But when we learn to regard it as the highest part of the work entrusted to us, the root and strength of all other work, we shall see that there is nothing that we so need to study and practice as the art of praying aright."

"We have become so accustomed to limit the wonderful love and the large promises of our God, that we cannot read the simplest and clearest statements of our Lord without the qualifying clauses by which we guard and expound them...God means prayer to have an answer, and...it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive what God will do for his child who gives himself to believe that his prayer will be heard."

Doesn't it make you want to spend your summer in the school of prayer? If so, Andrew Murray's book can be purchased from Amazon here, and Terry Virgo's talks from Celebration Midwest are available as free downloads here.