“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” II Corinthians 3:18.

We know not what we should pray for, neither what nor how to pray.  But here is the Spirit’s own inspired utterance, and, if the praying be molded on the model of His teaching, how can we go astray?  Here is our God-given liturgy and litany, a divine prayer book.  We have here God’s promises, precepts, warnings, and counsels, not to speak of all the Spirit-inspired literal prayers therein contained; and, as we reflect upon these, our prayers are shaped in this matrix.  We turn precept and promise, warning and counsel into supplication, with the assurance that we cannot be asking anything that is not according to His will, for are we not turning His own word into prayer?

                                                                                     - A. T. Pierson in “George Muller of Bristol.”

Prayer must be divinely inspired, and how can it be except as the word of God inspires it by precept and promise through the Spirit?