Do you ever wish you were a better pray-er? I’m sure at times you have wished your prayer life was richer. In the book, “Praying Hyde”, Carre records the following words that John Hyde wrote the following, it is a wonderful reminder that the success of our praying is not based on our prayer life or skill in it, but the faithfulness of Christ.

“Let us remember the word “for.” “Christ died for us,” and “He ever liveth to make intercession ‘for’ us, that is, in our room and stead. So I confess my everfailing prayers (it dare not be called a life), and plead His never failing intercession. Then it affects our Father, for He looks upon Christ’s prayer-life in us, and answers accordingly. So that the answer is far “above all we can ask or think.” Another great result follows: it affects us. Christ’s prayer life enters into us, and He prays in us. This is prayer in the Holy Spirit. Only thus can we pray without ceasing. This is the life more abundant which our Lord gives. Oh, what peace, what comfort! No more working up a life of prayer and failing constantly. Jesus enters the boat, and the toiling ceases, and we are at the land whither we would be. Now, we need to be still before Him, so as to hear His voice and allow Him to pray in us-nay, allow Him to pour into our souls His overflowing life of intercession,  which means literally: FACE TO FACE meeting with God-real UNION and COMMUNION.”¹

1. E. G. Carre, Praying Hyde, 31. ↩︎