It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. -Lamentations 3:22

Let us praise His name, dear friends, also especially that you and I are still spared to pray and permitted to pray. What if we are greatly afflicted, yet it is of the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed. If we had received our deserts we should not now have been on praying ground and pleading terms with Him. But let it be for our comfort and to God’s praise that still we may stand with bowed head and cry each one, “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Still may we cry like sinking Peter, “Lord save, or I perish.” Like David, we may be unable to go up to the temple, but we can still go to our God in prayer. The prodigal has lost his substance, but he has not lost his power to supplicate. He has been feeding swine, but as yet he is still a man, and has not lost the faculty of desire and entreaty. He may have forgotten his father, but his father has not forgotten him; he may arise and he may go to him, and he may pour out his soul in his father’s bosom. Therefore, let us give thanks unto God that He has nowhere said unto us, “Seek ye My face in vain.” If we find a desire to pray trembling within our soul, and if though almost extinct we feel some hope in the promise of our gracious God, if our heart still groans after holiness and after God, though she hath lost her power to pray with joyful confidence as once she did, yet let us be thankful that we can pray even if it be but a little. In the will and power to pray there lies the capacity for infinite blessedness: he who hath the key of prayer can open heaven, yea, he hath access to the heart of God; therefore, bless God for prayer.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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