Our prayers must be genuine, and they must be short. Almost all the prayers in the Bible are short. Many prayers in the prayer meeting are vain and unreal because they are too long. Perhaps two or three sentences out of the whole prayer are genuine, but the rest are redundant. Those two or three sentences are for God, but the rest are for the brothers and sisters. These prayers drag the meeting on. If we continue to pray long prayers, the church will suffer great loss. (Watchman Nee, Collected Works, Set Three, Vol. 48, Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California, U.S.A. 1994, pp. 206-207) ministrybooks.org
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