HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” James 1:5
James practised what he preached. He was known pre-eminently as the man of prayer in the early Church. Men said his knees were worn as hard as a camel’s, through his frequent kneeling. And, when he died a martyr’s death in Jerusalem, at the hands of cruel persecutors, “the just one is praying for you,” bystanders said. Was it not one chief secret of his power, that, whenever he lacked wisdom, he asked it of God?
So it has always been. The apostolic men, the saintly men, the heroic servants of God, and the strong soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ, have been everywhere and always prayed without ceasing.
Martin Luther’s outbursts’ helped him to witness his good confession to the Pope.
John Welsh spent eight hours out of the twenty-four in communion with God, and therefore he was equipped and armed to dare and to suffer.
David Brainerd rode through the endless American woods praying, and so he fulfilled a long time in a short time, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
John Wesley came out from his seclusion to change the face of England.
Andrew Bonar did not once miss his way to the mercy seat, and his fellowship with Heaven made him the winsome Christian he was.
Ah yes, if I would attempt great things for God, and achieve something before I die — I must pray at every moment and in every place.
THE MYSTICAL COURT 