"This is as good as a promise, for it declares a present fact, which will be the same throughout all ages. God takes great pleasure in the prayers of upright men;
He even calls them His delight.
Our first concern is to be upright. Neither bending this way nor that,
continue upright; ... If we begin to shuffle and shift, we shall be left to shift for ourselves. ....we shall find our prayers shut out of heaven.
---If our prayer is God's delight, let us not stint Him in that which gives Him pleasure.
---He does not consider the grammar of it, nor the metaphysics of it, nor the rhetoric of it; in all these men might despise it.
He, as a Father,
takes pleasure in the lispings of His own babes,
the stammerings of His newborn sons and daughters.
Q: Should we not delight in prayer since the Lord delights in it?."
Charles Spurgeon
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