LIFE CHANGING PRAYER compiled by Debra Maffett

heart," (Romans 5.5) — he does not neglect the private duties of the
closet, but anticipates with delight the return of those seasons of
private prayer in which he has frequently enjoyed sweet communion
with the Lord, and found his service perfect freedom.
Having "escaped the pollutions of the world," and being watchful lest
he be "again entangled therein and overcome," (2 Peter 2.20) — a
temptation from that quarter excites his alarm, leads him to his
closet, and makes him more earnest in prayer — thus the purposes
of the enemy in presenting the temptation, are defeated.
But he is liable to an attack in a more vulnerable part. Religion is his
delight. He does not suspect an evil in a religious garb. Ignorant in
some measure of the devices of his spiritual adversary, he has little
or no apprehension of meeting him transformed into an angel of
light. He is not aware of the paralyzing effects which an inordinate
zeal for the non-essentials of religion has upon the inner man, nor
of the intoxicating nature of that busy, prying curiosity, which
intrudes too far into those mysterious and deep things of God and
religion, which are most remote from the understanding of the best
and wisest of men.
Having tasted much of the pleasantness of religion, and being
anxious in the pursuit of more — he eagerly grasps at anything that
may be urged by those whom he highly esteems and regards as
fathers in Christ, as absolutely necessary to render his Christianity
more pure and primitive, or to increase his measure of religious
knowledge.
This is an important crisis — a time of much spiritual danger — the
enemy of souls is ever watchful to hinder the Christian in his course
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