# Alone With God ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41wdfIE-HuL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[John F. MacArthur Jr.]] - Full Title: Alone With God - Category: #books ## Highlights - It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life.… Ultimately, therefore, a man discovers the real condition of his spiritual life when he examines himself in private, when he is alone with God.… And have we not all known what it is to find that, somehow, we have less to say to God when we are alone than when we are in the presence of others? It should not be so; but it often is. So that it is when we have left the realm of activities and outward dealings with other people, and are alone with God, that we really know where we stand in a spiritual sense.3 ([Location 79](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006J9DFKS&location=79)) - Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living as if God were not necessary. When that happens, passionate longing for God and yearning for His help will be missing—along with His empowerment. Because of this great and common danger, Paul urged believers to “pray at all times” (Eph. 6:18) and to “devote yourselves to prayer” (Col. 4:2). Continual, persistent, incessant prayer is an essential part of Christian living, and it flows out of dependence on God. ([Location 138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006J9DFKS&location=138)) - Read the benedictions to many of his epistles and you’ll discover that praying for his fellow believers was his daily practice. ([Location 154](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006J9DFKS&location=154)) - Unceasing, incessant prayer is essential to the vitality of a believer’s relationship to the Lord and his ability to function in the world. ([Location 163](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006J9DFKS&location=163))