A Call to Prayer

Prayer by 
J.C. Ryle

A Call to Prayer is a bold, encouraging, and compassionate invitation to all God’s children to come before Him in prayer. It is a direct admonition to pray sincerely and incessantly.

Private prayer, according to Ryle, is the most neglected of all Christian responsibilities. It is regrettable because private prayer is the genuine measure of a Christian’s walk with God, as well as “the pith and marrow of practical Christianity.” To encourage his readers to practice and enjoy the luxury of private prayer, Ryle highlights both the benefits of prayer and the severe risks of prayerlessness.

A Call to Prayer highlights that prayer, with God’s blessing, gives birth to new life, develops faith, moves mountains, and fosters spiritual growth and contentment that transcends circumstances. His admonition is undoubtedly timely for our contemporary evangelical church, which has been a testimony to a lost and perishing world in the last generation.