Thomas Brooks on Prayer and Secret Sins
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Prayer, Secret Sins, Thomas Brooks | Posted On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 5:30 AM
“There is no greater hindrance to secret prayer in all the world than secret sins. Therefore, stand upon your watch, and arm yourselves with all your might against them. There is an antipathy betwixt secret sinning and secret praying, partly from guilt, which makes the soul shy of coming under God’s secret eye; and partly from those fears, doubts, disputes, and disorders that secret sins raise in the heart. Light is not more opposite to darkness, Christ to Belial, or heaven to hell than secret prayer is to secret sins.”
Thomas Brooks
Amen.
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:"
Psalm 66:18
Therefore we pray:
"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
Psalm 139:23-24