13. Rev 3:7-8
These are the words of him who is holy and
true, who holds the key of David. What he
opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no
one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have
placed before you an open door that no one can
shut. I know that you have little strength, yet
you have kept my word and have not denied my
name.
24. Prayer that OPENS DOOR
Rev 4:1
After this I looked, and there before me was
a door standing open in heaven. And the voice
I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet
said, “Come up here, and I will show you what
must take place after this.”
25. Luke 11
9
“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given
to you; seek and you will find; knock and
the door will be opened to you. 10 For
everyone who asks receives; the one who
seeks finds; and to the one who knocks,
the door will be opened.
26. Luke 18
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them
that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He
said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither
feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And
there was a widow in that town who kept coming to
him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my
adversary.’
27. Luke 18
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
4
“For some time he refused. But finally he said to
himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what
people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps
bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that
she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
28. Luke 18
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
6
And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge
says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his
chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will
he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that
they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son
of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
29. “Lord, this day I will come to certain doors
that are locked but I shall use these keys
to open those doors. And may I remember
this day that there is a key to every
situation, a solution to every problem.
May I never surrender to one of life’s
locked doors. Instead, may I use the keys
on the key ring of prayer until I find the
right key and the door be opened.”
30. He who lives without prayer, he who lives with
little prayer, he who seldom reads the Word, and he
who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence
from on high—he will be the man whose heart will
become dry and barren. However, he who falls in
secret on his God, who spends much time in holy
retirement, who delights to meditate on the words of
the Most High, and whose soul is given up to Christ—
such a man must have an overflowing heart. As his
heart is, such will his life be.
Spurgeon
31. Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the
very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars
borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well.
Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and
barometer, of vital and experimental religion. Burn
here the fat of your sacrifices. Let your closet seasons
be, if possible, regular, frequent, and undisturbed.
Effectual prayer availeth much.
32. Have you nothing to pray for? Let us suggest the
Church, the ministry, your own soul, your children,
your relations, your neighbours, your country, and
the cause of God and truth throughout the world. Let
us examine ourselves on this important matter.
33. Do we engage with lukewarmness in private
devotion? Is the fire of devotion burning dimly in our
hearts? Do the chariot wheels drag heavily? If so, let
us be alarmed at this sign of decay. Let us go with
weeping, and ask for the Spirit of grace and of
supplications. Let us set apart special seasons
for extraordinary prayer.
34. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes
of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the
family altar, and lessen our influence both in the
Church and in the world.
Spurgeon
