Thomas Shepard on Prayer -
Thomas Shepard
Introduction
Thomas Shepard was a seventeenth-century Pilgrim leader renowned for his power in prayer. He migrated from England to Massachusetts in 1635 and became minister to the First Church in Cambridge. Harvard College was originally located near him because of the good results coming out of his ministry. Shepard died young because of abscesses from severe tonsillitis. On this day July 2 of an unspecified year, he wrote:
Quote
“I saw it to be my duty not only to pray from time to time, but actually to live by prayer. To live by prayer for myself, and for my family, and for my church. And I saw that my heart was at last conformed to the mind and the will of God in that respect. And I went on to consider in what ways I might henceforth live by prayer alone.”
Whyte, Alexander. "It is Sometimes So with Me that I Will Rather Die than Pray."