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Prayer Always Bears Fruit

Prayer Always Bears Fruit

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It is enough for us to be persuaded that our supplication will be welcome when we address our requests to Him, since His grace has opened the way. Moreover, prayer always bears fruit. But we do not know exactly how, and since it is beyond our senses, we must wait with patience, and yet always persevering in our prayers.

…Thus, let us learn to pray to God in all our extremity, and even when it seems that nothing else can be done, let us keep on, nevertheless… let us consider what He has commanded us to do: that is, to wait in patience and humility for whatever the outcome will be. Although we are like poor blind men – certainly so – we ought to be satisfied by this clear teaching given to us; namely, that God does care for us, even when He seems to have turned His back on us.

John Calvin, Sermons on 2 Samuel, pg 588.

The Throne of Grace

The Throne of Grace

Except you, in your personal exercise and experience, do know what this throne of grace is, and what is got there; you may be Christians hereafter, but as yet you are none; unless you experience what this throne of grace is, by frequent repairing to it, and by frequent receiving good at it. That man or woman, whatever his or her name be in the world, or the church of Christ, that never found any need for, or use of, or benefit by this throne of grace, is surely a dead sinner. People may safely and surely judge of both the state and frame of their souls, by their business at the throne of grace. Never got any soul life, but by an act of grace from this throne. No soul can be kept in life, but by daily intercourse with it. It is as impossible that these bodies of ours should be maintained in life and strength without meat, and drink, and air; as it is for the soul of a believer to prosper without daily plying the throne of grace.

Robert Traill, Works of Robert Traill, Volume 1, pg 38.