“It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not spend time with God.”
Jesus Christ
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me…that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me and I in You; that they also may be one in Us…that they may be one just as We are one; I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one…”
If all things exist for God’s glory, so it is with prayer. The chief end of prayer is the glory of God. Jesus said, “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
“It is to this end that Jesus on His throne will do all that we ask in His Name. Every answer to prayer He gives will have this as its object. Where there is no prospect of this object being obtained, He will not answer. It follows as a matter of course that this must be with us, as with Jesus, the essential element in our petition. The glory of the Father must be the aim and end, the very soul and life of our prayers.”