The Lord Jesus directs us to exercise ourselves in private prayer (Matthew 6.6). But many will be ready to object and say, ‘We have much business upon our hands, and we cannot spare time for private prayer.’
Now to this objection I shall give these eight answers, so that this objection may never have a resurrection more in any of your hearts.
How important?
First, what are all those businesses that are upon your hands, to those businesses and weighty affairs that lay upon the hands of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Daniel, Elijah, Nehemiah, Peter, Cornelius?
