(5) A right heart is a PRAYING heart.
It has within it “the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba Father” (Romans 8:15).
Its daily feeling is, “Your face, Lord, will I seek” (Psalm 27:8).
It is drawn by an habitual inclination to speak to God about spiritual things — weakly, feebly, and imperfectly perhaps — but speak it must.
It finds it necessary to pour out itself before God, as before a friend, and to spread before Him all its needs and desires.
It tells Him all its secrets. It keeps back nothing from Him.
You might as well try to persuade a person to live without breathing, as to persuade the possessor of a right heart to live without praying.
- C. Ryle: Old Paths, ‘The Heart’