A Godly Man is a Praying Man – Part 1
"Let everyone who is godly pray to You." Psalm 32:6 As soon as grace is poured in—prayer is poured out! "But I give myself unto prayer" (Psalm 109:4). In the Hebrew it is, "but I prayer". Prayer and I are all one. Prayer is the soul's communion with heaven. God comes down to us by his Spirit—and we go up to him by prayer. Caligula placed his idols—as whispering in Jupiter's ear. Prayer is a whispering in God's ear! A godly
A Godly Man is a Praying Man – Part 2
Use 1: Is a godly man of a praying spirit? Then this excludes from being godly: 1. Those who do not pray at all. Their houses are unhallowed houses. It is made the note of a reprobate that "he does not call upon God" (Psalm 14:4). Does that poor creature who never asks for alms, think that he will receive any? Do those who never seek mercy from God, think that they will receive it? Truly, then God should befriend them
THIS WORD FEAR AS TAKEN FOR GOD HIMSELF
There are these things that make God to be the fear of his people. First. His presence is dreadful, and that not only his presence in common, but his special, yea, his most comfortable and joyous presence. When God comes to bring a soul news of mercy and salvation, even that visit, that presence of God, is fearful. When Jacob went from Beersheba towards Haran, he met with God in the way by a dream, in the which he apprehended a