A TRAINED EAR
Genesis 18:23-33
Prayer is Spirit-suggested. It needs a strongly bended will. Through that comes the open or trained ear. So we learn God’s plans. We catch the prayer he needs to have prayed. His promise turns into a prayer on our lips, and so it is a prophecy of what he will do. Thus prayer is restrained as well as inspired. Its whole purpose is to get God’s love-wili done through the needed human channels. Prayer’s touchstone is a trained ear,