When God intends a mercy for his people, he stirs up the spirit of prayer in them. Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand. It will not allow diversions and denies all foreign thoughts seeking to intrude. Pray fervently or you do nothing. Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is fire. How can prayers that do not even warm your own heart move Gods? A fervent prayer will never find a cold reception with God. Elijahs prayer called fire down from heaven because it carried fire up to heaven.
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William Gurnall was a 17th-century English author and anglican clergyman. William Gurnall was an English author and Anglican clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he was baptised on 17 November 1616. Read more on Wikipedia →

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