Busy for prayer??

Let us increase our prayings as we increase our doings. I like that of Martin Luther, when he says,

I have so much business to do today that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours' prayer.

Now most people would say, "I have so much business to do today, that I must only have three minutes' prayer; I cannot afford the time."

But Luther thought that  the more he had to do the more he must pray, or else he could not get trough it. That is a blessed kind of logic: may we understand it!

"Praying and provender, hinder no man's journey." If you have to stop and pray, it is no more a hindrance than when the rider has to stop at the farrier's to have his horse's shoe fastened, for if he went on without attending to that it may be that before long he would be forced to stop for a more serious problem.

Charles Spurgeon