THE KEY!!!

If you want to know an important key to becoming the kind of Christian that you long to be, the following quote pretty much sums it up.

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  E-45    Now, there's a code of ethics to it. God has a new birth for you. But listen to His still small voice. Every one of you people who profess to be Christians, get yourself quiet before Him. Don't let the washing hinder. Don't let the work hinder. Don't let nothing hinder. Don't let nobody know what you're doing. Just go before Him. Get up in the woods somewhere. Get out on the side of the road. Go into the secret closet and close the door, when the kids gets at school. There get down on your knees. You've heard all kinds of voices everywhere. But just get down and stay there until those voices are silenced and you begin to lift up. It'll change you. It'll make you different like it did this little Samuel. It'll do something to you if you'll just do it. Now, it'll make you what you should be. It'll make you the kind of Christian that you ought to be.
William M. Branham

Brother Fergusson came to our church last year and preached about committing time every week to the Lord. Pick a night during the week that is good for you and commit it to the Lord. Don't worry about the time, just go in and stay there. Don't go in and read your Bible, although sometimes this is good, but read your Bible at other times. But go in before the Lord and commune with Him. Worship Him. Fellowship with Him. And then bring your MANY supplications. And although there are always things and people to pray for, I have found that I need to pray for myself the majority of the time. "I'm" the one who needs it the most. "I'm" the one who is wrong. "I'm" the one who has faults. "I'm"the one who needs to be changed. It's me, it's me, it's me oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. And if you do this AND pray for everyone who needs prayer, you will see, you won't be coming out too soon. Stay there until...

Brother Branham had this to say about Martin Luther in the Church Age Book:
He was a man given to much prayer and had learned that the more work he had to do, and the more sorely he was pressed for time, the more of his time he gave to God in prayer in order to ensure satisfactory results.