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 David means when he says: — ‘I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water to thee.’ That is: O Lord, I have no need to ask of Thee; my need asks Thee; my destitution asks Thee; my necessities ask Thee!

So long as we keep in this disposition, we ‘pray without praying’; so long as we give our minds to avoiding all that might endanger our soul, we ‘ pray without praying’; and God understands this language. ‘ O Lord, before Whom I stand, and to Whom my misery is known in all its fulness, have pity on it! And every time Thine eyes shall behold it, O God of all goodness, may it draw down on me Thy mercies! ’

Here is one way of ‘ always praying’ — and perhaps the most effectual.