Prayer is a Weapon

Prayer is the soul's weapon, and is it not a grief to lack a weapon in our spiritual warfare? Prayer is the soul's ornament, the excellent garment of a Christian; and is it not an affliction, to be without this garment, and to be found naked? Prayer is the Christians element; and as the fish lives in the water as in its element, and dies when it is out of it, so a Christian lives in prayer as in his element, and his heart dies when he is out of it. Prayer is the soul's provisioner, bringing in provision for the soul and for all its graces.

Adapted from A Lifting Up for the Downcast by William Bridge