Are you rightly related to your wife, to your husband, to your children, to your fellow-students – are you a “good child” there? Have I been asking God to give me money for something I want when there is something I have not paid for?

“I am a child of God only by regeneration, and as a child of God I am good only as I walk in the light. Prayer with most of us is turned into pious platitude, it is a matter of emotion, mystical communion with God. Spiritually we are all good at producing fogs.  We talk about prayer as if God heard us irrespective of the fact of our relationship to Him. Never say it is not God’s will to give you what you ask, don’t sit down and faint, but find out the reason, turn up the index.” – Chambers August 24

My Response:

What can I say? Lord, help me to “turn up the index.”