PRAYER AND STUDY

PRAYER AND STUDY

With regard to the study of the word, I would rather set more on prayer. You cannot understand the word apart from the state to understand it. In Ephesians 1, the apostle prays that God might give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of their heart being enlightened, that they might know — it is divine power to give you the state that you may know. And then in chapter 3, it is “strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to apprehend with all saints”. You could not get at it simply by the study of Scripture, but you have to bow to God, and to look to Him that He may give you the spirit of wisdom. I was an ardent student of Scripture at one time, but I do not think I got things in that way — not that I have much any way at all.