But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Matt 6:6
SECRET PRAY is honest prayer. It’s hard to put on a show of piety, to be a hypocrite, in private devotions.
Only by an exposure of the soul to God in private prayer will a person get a true revelation of himself. Isaiah was alone with God in the temple when he saw his sinfulness – “I am a man of unclean lips.” He had lived with godly people, he had studied the Scriptures, he had preached. But there was something of himself he had never seen or known until he got alone with God.
Our primary problem is the sin problem. The only way of knowing how real and personal is the problem, and the only way to find a remedy for it is to get alone with God.
George E. Failing (excerpt from With Open Face. 1983)
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