Little Prayer Book

Instruction on how one should pray rightly.

...in such a way that one also perceives very little in the heart of the answer and the hearing of the Lord—indeed, of the gracious presents and gifts which God distributes to faithful original: "rechtgläubigen" – meaning those who hold the correct or true faith. pray-ers, even often in the midst of prayer. I will say nothing of the fact that many of them want to know nothing of such divine response, nor how the Lord Christ is accustomed to speak with His own in the Holy Spirit; instead, as soon as the words of the prayer, or the Our Father The "Vater Unser" or Lord's Prayer., are finished, they run back to their old sinful ways without any devotion, without further attending to the powerful answer and hearing. Truly, with our praying, we may not unfairly be compared to the hypocrites of whom the Lord says, quoting the prophecy of Isaiah: "This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me." (Matthew 15, Isaiah 29).

Just so, it has now unfortunately also fallen into abuse that we dispatch our Lord and God with our cold, weary, and lazy prayer (when it even happens that we pray at all) like a messenger in the morning The author uses a vivid metaphor here: treating God like a servant who is given a quick set of instructions ("dispatched") so that the master can go about his day without further thought., and then throughout the entire day think of Him no more, much less of the fruit of prayer, which