Continuing instant in prayer." It may be proper a this stage to say that there words, though I shall dwell upon them in the English, are not identical with the Greek, in which there is but one word. I do not know that a better translation could possibly be given, and so I shall content myself with the very words of our own version. The word "instant," as used by our translators, meant pressing, urgent, importunate, earnest. The Greek word is said to have the signification of "always applying strength in prayer," or continuing with all your might in prayer. Our prayer is to be full of strength; "blessed is the man whose strength is in thee.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the...