There is a soaking, stupefying sloth, that so fills our hearts that we forget and neglect the immense concession and privilege we have afforded us in secret prayer.
Almost a better test of true and false religion than even secret prayer, but a test that is far more difficult to handle, is our opinion of ourselves.
We knelt to-day in secret prayer, and there was only our bed or our chair visible before us.
It is at best an open homage paid to secret prayer.
After he had spent some time in secret prayer, about two o'clock he was taken from prison, attended by several of his friends in mourning, though he himself was full of holy cheerfulness and courage, and in a perfect serenity of mind.
He was negligent, and did not pay sufficient attention to secret prayer, to obtain that nearness to God that is so necessary for a minister to have if he expects his works to be blessed with Divine favor.
Knowing the danger of being lifted up by self-approbation, I determined to be on my guard, attend to secret prayer, and to reading and keeping diaries.
I said nothing to him, but I poured out my soul in secret prayer to my Heavenly Father, asking Him to open the door for my deliverance, so that my proud spirit, which was bound down, might soar in a free element.
That evening, after I had given some time to secret prayer, I retired to rest.
Then lastly I put in my plea, as I sought to do when we were considering the matter of secret prayer, for such a secret study of the Word of God as shall be unprofessional, unclerical, and simply Christian.
Not that I wish to enter in detail on either the theory or the practice of prayer in secret; as I have attempted to do already in a little book which I may venture here to mention, Secret Prayer.
Do not through carnal unwillingness grow into a neglect of secret prayer, when you have time; nor yet do you superstitiously tie yourselves to just so long time, whether you are fit, or at leisure from greater duties, or not.
If you can have leisure, go first to secret prayer: and if you are servants, and have any necessary business to do, despatch it quickly, that you may he free for better work.
He was a conscientious observer of the Lord's day, spending all the time either in secret prayer, reading the Scriptures and good books, learning his catechism, or hearing the word of God.
She was wont to be much in secret prayer, and many times came from her knees with tears.
He was much in secret prayer, and enjoyed intimate communion with his God.
He thought much of eternity, and was frequent in secret prayer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secret prayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
