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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Law: if you can’t pray about it...

Meditation:
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
—Matthew 12:35 (NIV)

Quotation:
Consider yourself as always wrong, as having gone aside, and lost your right path, when any delight, desire, or trouble, is suffered to live in you, that cannot be made a part of this prayer of the heart to God. For nothing so infallibly shows us the true state of our heart, as that which gives us either delight or trouble; for as our delight and trouble is, so is the state of our heart: if therefore you are carried away with any trouble or delight, that has not an immediate relation to your progress in the divine life, you may be assured your heart is not in its right state of prayer to God... [Continued tomorrow]
... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Prayer [1749], London: E. Justins for Ogles, Duncan, and Cochran, 1816, p. 159 (see the book)
See also Matt. 12:35; 1 Cor. 13:1; Gal. 5:22,23; Heb. 9:11-14

Quiet time reflection:
Cleanse my heart and life, that I might pray before You, Lord.
 
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