The word of God is quick, and powerful.
—Hebrews 4:12
Both the Word of God and prayer are indispensable for communion with God, and in the inner chamber they should not be separated. In His Word, God speaks to us; in prayer, we speak to God.
The Word teaches us to know the God to whom we pray. It teaches us how He wants us to pray. It gives us precious promises to encourage us in prayer. It often gives us wonderful answers to prayer.
The Word comes from God’s heart and brings His thoughts and His love into our hearts. And then, through prayer, the Word goes back from our hearts into His great heart of love. Prayer is the means of fellowship between God’s heart and ours.
The Word teaches us God’s will—the will of His promises as to what He will do for us, and also the will of His commands. His promises are food for our faith, and to His commands we surrender ourselves in loving obedience.
The more we pray, the more we will feel our need for the Word and will rejoice in it. The more we read God’s Word, the more we will have to pray about, and the more power we will have in prayer. One great cause of prayerlessness is that we read God’s Word too little, only superficially, or in the light of human wisdom.
The Holy Spirit, through whom the Word has been spoken, is also the Spirit of prayer. He will teach us how to receive the Word and how to approach God.
How blessed the inner chamber would be, what a power and an inspiration in our worship, if we only took God’s Word as from Himself, turning it into prayer and definitely expecting an answer! It is in the inner chamber, in God’s presence, that, by the Holy Spirit, God’s Word will become our delight and our strength.
When we take God’s Word in deepest reverence in our hearts, on our lips, and in our lives, it will be a never failing fountain of strength and blessing to us. Let us believe that God’s Word is indeed full of power that will make us strong, able to expect and receive great things from God. Above all, it will give us the daily blessed fellowship with Him as the living God.
“Blessed is the man…[whose] delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night” (Psalm 1:1–2).