Prayer

Enoch walked with God through prayer.—I wish I could impress upon every
worker in God’s cause, the great need of continual, earnest prayer. They cannot be
constantly upon their knees, but they can be uplifting their hearts to God. This is the
way that Enoch walked with God.—(The Review and Herald, November 10, 1885.)
While engaged in our daily work, we should lift the soul to heaven in prayer.
These silent petitions rise like incense before the throne of grace; and the enemy is
baffled. The Christian whose heart is thus stayed upon God cannot be overcome.
No evil arts can destroy his peace. All the promises of God’s word, all the power
of divine grace, all the resources of Jehovah, are pledged to secure his deliverance.
It was thus that Enoch walked with God. And God was with him, a present help in
every time of need.—(Messages to Young People, 249.)
Individuals sought out enoch for prayer.—Enoch became a preacher of
righteousness, making known to the people what God had revealed to him. Those
who feared the Lord sought out this holy man, to share his instruction and his
prayers.—(Patriarchs and Prophets, 86.)
The greater enoch’s labors, the more earnest his prayers—In the midst of a
life of active labor, Enoch steadfastly maintained his communion with God. The
greater and more pressing his labors, the more constant and earnest were his prayers.
He continued to exclude himself, at certain periods, from all society. After remaining
for a time among the people, laboring to benefit them by instruction and example, he
would withdraw, to spend a season in solitude, hungering and thirsting for that divine
knowledge which God alone can impart.—(Patriarchs and Prophets, 86, 87.)
ABRAHAM
Daily prayer to ascend to God as sweet incense.—The life of Abraham, the
friend of God, was a life of prayer. Wherever he pitched his tent, close beside it was
built an altar, upon which
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