Gary writes and asks this, Pastor John back during Tim Keller's week of APJ episodes

on prayer.

He encouraged us to take time for meditation on the Scriptures before prayer so as to

warm our hearts to God.

Can you give some practical advice and tips on how this looks practically for you?

I think the best way for me to answer this is with the help of George Mueller because

what he taught me years ago, many years ago, is still the way I function in the morning

and I just think it'll be significant to let Mueller talk here with me just sticking

in a comment here and there.

For George Mueller is famous for establishing orphanages and being a great man of faith.

He died in 1898 and in 1841, so I think he was 36 years old when he made this life-changing

discovery.

Here's what he wrote.

While I was staying at Nail's worth, it pleased the Lord to teach me a truth irrespective

of human instrumentality as far as I know.

The benefit of which I have not lost Nail more than 40 years since that event has passed.

The point is this, I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business

to which I ought to attend every day was to have a happy soul in the Lord.

The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, how much

I might glorify the Lord, but how I might get my soul into a happy state and how my inner

man might be nourished.

Before this time, my practice had been at least for 10 years previously as a habitual thing

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