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May 10, 2023 · When we bring our fears, anxieties, and sorrows to God in prayer, we can experience a sense of peace and comfort that can help us to overcome the challenges of life. As Bunyan notes, “Prayer is a balm for the wounded heart; it is a soothing ointment that can heal the deepest wounds of the soul.”.
Apr 1, 2010 · To Bunyan prayer is a ‘sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to his Word, for the good of the church, with submission in faith to the will of God’.
“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to his Word, for the good of the church, with submission in faith to the will of God.”
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, and an AFFECTIONATE pouring out of the soul to God. O! the heat, strength, life, vigour, and affection, that is in right prayer! "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God" (Psa_42:1). "I have longed after thy precepts" (Psa_119:40).
His most successful effort has been to keep the soul in that fatal lethargy, or death unto holiness, and consequently unto prayer, into which it is plunged by Adam's transgression. Bunyan has some striking illustrations of Satan's devices to stifle prayer, in his history of the Holy War.
* Book about prayer by John Bunyan * Dense, hard to read but good * True prayer is praying in the spirit and knowing God as your father and Jesus as your saviour
Jan 29, 2018 · It is an exposition of the Apostle Paul’s statement that “I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also”. ( 1 Corinthians 14:15 KJV) It contains some of Bunyan’s clearest teachings on prayer, which he defined in the following manner.
