New To me Devotional

I downloaded this from Olive Tree yesterday. Hope it blesses you!
Adapted from A Plain Account of Christian Perfection by John Wesley
Day 24 – Prayer Unceasing
Topic: Prayer, Loving God
1 Thessalonians 5: 16- 19
Our Lord takes it for granted that His people will pray. And indeed in Scripture, generally the outward obligation of prayer is implied rather than asserted. Moved by a divinely- implanted instinct, our natures cry out for God, for the living God. And however this instinct may be crushed by sin, it awakes to power in the consciousness of redemption. Theologians of all schools, and Christians of every type, agree in their recognition of this principle of the new life.
Chrysostom has said, “The just man does not desist from praying until he ceases to be just;” and Augustine, “He that loves little prays little, and he that loves much prays much;” and Richard Hooker, “Prayer is the first thing with which a righteous life begins, and the last with which it ends;” and Père la Combe, “He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray, and he who will be constant in prayer shall know what it is to have a pure heart;” and Bunyan, “If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian;” and Richard Baxter, “Prayer is the breath of the new creature;” and George Herbert, “Prayer…the soul’s blood.”
Adapted from The Hidden Life of Prayer by David MacIntyre
 

Posted with Blogsy