“But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret, shall reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6).

Eight times in the space of this verse, is the pronoun used in the singular number and the second person—a thing unique in all Scripture—as though to emphasize the indispensability, importance and value of private prayer. We are to pray in the closet as well as in the church: in fact if the former be neglected, it is not at all likely that the latter will be of much avail. He who is an attendee at the prayer meetings in order to be seen of men, and is not seen alone in his closet by God—is a hypocrite. Private prayer is the test of our sincerity, the index to our spirituality, the principle means of growing in grace. Private prayer is the one thing, above all others, which Satan seeks to prevent—for he knows full well that if he can succeed at this point, the Christian will fail at every other.
- A.W. Pink

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