Prayer is sure work and the harbinger of blessing. So I have found in forty-six years’ pilgrimage. Having been laid aside this spring, these past two months, this thought has been a comfort to me. I, too, have been reminded that there is a still more precious truth—that if prayer be a channel of blessing, the spring is in God and the fountain of blessing is Christ Jesus. The blessings flow down freely, and often what sets us praying for more is a first dropping of His rich love and grace.
I have been preaching this evening from 1 John 4 to a simple, poor people, showing what the gospel which John wanted us to hold fast was. We begin with God’s love—love, that is, for sinners, His Son to make propitiation for sin, to give life, to be the Saviour of the world.
G. V. Wigram (from a letter)