Abide in Christ

an excerpt from the article by R.A. Torrey:

It is not by seasons of mystical
meditation and rapturous
experiences that we learn to abide
in Christ; it is by feeding upon
His Word, His written Word as
found in the Bible, and looking to
the Holy Spirit to implant these
words in our hearts and to make
them a living thing in our hearts.
If we thus let the words of Christ
abide in us, they will stir us up
to prayer. They will be the mold
in which our prayers are shaped,
and our prayers will be necessarily
along the line of God’s will,
and will prevail with Him. Prevailing
prayer is an impossibility
where there is neglect of the study
of the Word of God.
If we would feed the fire of
our prayers with the fuel of God’s
Word, all our difficulties in prayer
would disappear.