Prayers & Reflections for December 7

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer

Prayer is not the breaking down of the reluctance of God; it is rather the opening of a door. "Behold I stand at the door and knock." The latch is on our side and not His.

Prayer opens that door:

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man listens to my voice, and opens the door to me, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me" (Apoc. 3:20)...

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons