Prayer is not merely asking for something in order that I may obtain it for myself.
"Not my will, but Thine be done."
Which means, if the thing I ask for - however much I desire it, however good it seems to me to be - will hinder or postpone, by a hair's breadth or a moment, the ultimate victory, it will be denied to me.
Those who know the real secret of the prayer life have discovered the fact that denial is over and over again the graciousness of overwhelming answer.
