Prayer is the natural out-gushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because-of its living union with the stem, so prayer buds, and blossoms, and fruits, out of souls abiding in Jesus.-As stars shine, so do abiders pray. It is their use and their second nature. They do not say to themselves, -Now it is the time for us to get to our task and pray.- No, they pray as wise men eat, namely, when the desire for it is upon them. They do not cry out as under bondage, -At this time I ought to be in prayer, but I do not feel like it. What a weariness it is-- but they have a glad errand at the mercy seat, and they are rejoiced to go upon it