“Use prayer as a boring rod, and wells of living water will leap up from the bowels of the Word….Prayer will singularly assist you in the delivery of your sermon; in fact, nothing can so gloriously fit you to preach as descending flesh from the mount of communion with God to speak with men. None are so able to plead with men as those who have been wrestling with God on their behalf.”
-C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2008), 45.
