But When You Pray, Go Into Your Room And Shut The Door And Pray To Your Father Who Is In Secret. And Your Father Who Sees In Secret Will Reward You.

Whatever happened to the prayer closet?  If you’ve never heard of one, it’s simply a private place to spend time with the Lord.  It can literally be a closet, a private room, or even a chair in the corner of your bedroom. Mine is a stuffed chair in my home office. It’s a place to get alone with the Lord in prayer.

Scripture records the Lord Jesus getting away for solitary prayer, “Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray” (Mark 1:35 NLT). This is so important that Jesus tells us, “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy…