Lord, Teach Us to Pray: The Only Teacher

Lord, Teach Us to Pray
By Andrew Murray

The Only Teacher
(Excerpts 1)


'Lord, teach us to pray.' Yes, to pray. 

This is what we need to be taught. 


Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. 


It is fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life. 


Not only for ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for the world, it is to prayer that God has given the right to take hold of Him and His strength. 


It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation. And for this blessed work, how slothful and unfit we are. 


It is only the Spirit of God can enable us to do it aright. How speedily we are deceived into a resting in the form, while the power is wanting. 


Our early training, the teaching of the Church, the influence of habit, the stirring of the emotions—how easily these lead to prayer which has no spiritual power, and avails but little. 


True prayer, that takes hold of God's strength, that availeth much, to which the gates of heaven are really opened wide—who would not cry, 

Oh for some one to teach me thus to pray?


Jesus has opened a school, in which He trains His redeemed ones, who specially desire it, to have power in prayer. 


Shall we not enter it with the petition, 

Lord! it is just this we need to be taught! 

O teach us to pray.





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