Kept by God
We are kept by God's power, and God's power is triggered by prayer… We pray aright when we "pray in the Holy Ghost." This is necessary with respect to acceptance… Surely, God's ear will be
opened if our hearts be opened… Fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice was the solemn token of acceptance heretofore; fire from heaven is the token still, even a holy ardour wrought in us by the Spirit.
Prayer is a work too hard for us; we can babble of ourselves, but we cannot pray without the Holy Ghost; we can put words into prayer, but it is the Spirit who puts affections, without which it is but a little cold praattle adn spiritless talk.
—Thomas Manton "The Epistle of Jude"
Filed under A Puritan at Heart, Daily Quote, Thomas Manton by on Mar 2nd, 2010. 
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