Some years ago I wrote a tiny booklet called “I will pray,” of which I sold hundreds until all were sold. I am thinking that I may tell my “Message” friends the beautiful story of my dear aged saint who kept on saying and acting it out, “I will pray.” I assure you, dear readers, there is nothing so worth doing as prayer—never cease, morning, noon, evening, or in the night, and even in your dreams, if it please God, you can pray. Nothing Satan hates so much as believing prayer. Many years ago I had the great privilege of ministering spiritually to a dear aged lady. She always spoke of herself as a poor unworthy sinner, but I knew she was a saint of God (saint means sinner saved). She told me that. Satan always tried to hinder her praying, but with determined will she resisted him by saying, “I will pray,” and out she would creep from her bed night after night to pray, when her friends thought she was tucked up and comfortably sleeping. So prayer became her chiefest delight, communing with the Lord Jesus, her Saviour and her God. Oh, dear reader, do let us continually draw near to Him and pray, at any moment look up and pray right through the day, and then rejoice in regular stated times to meet Him also.
Emily P. Leakey.