The Authors

How to be still in God, honestly: the old writers commend stillness, and John Wesley warned against it. The difference between receiving and refusing.

What did the Andrew Murray prayer life actually involve? A real room, a shut door, an appointed hour, and a quiet pause before the first word is spoken.

E.M. Bounds on prayer taught that the whole man prays, body included — then argued against prayer posture harder than his critics do. An honest reading.

Does the body matter in prayer? Bounds, Spurgeon and Murray prescribed a place, a posture, a pause — and Wesley argued the other side. What they meant.

How to make a prayer closet as Murray, Law, Spurgeon and Guyon actually taught it: a real place, a shut door, an appointed hour, and where they disagree.

How long should you pray? The old writers answer with a condition, not a clock: not a longer hour but an unhurried one. Ryle, Murray and Spurgeon on pace.

Andrew Murray on the inner chamber: what he told a reader to do in the first quiet minute after the door shuts, where he got it, and Wesley’s objection.

The Elijah broom tree rest came before the still small voice: bread, then sleep, then a word. What Spurgeon, Baxter, Arndt and Wesley said to the tired.

Does God care about my body, or only my soul? What Bounds, Murray, Wesley and the Prayer Book really say about the body in prayer, and where they differ.

Prayer postures in the Bible — kneeling, bowing, lying down — and what Bounds, Spurgeon, Murray and Maclaren said about whether posture matters at all.