Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Indeed, each head of the household should see to it that there is reading the saying of prayers each morning and evening in his home. Nor should a day go by without calling upon God and giving Him thanks. For in this way, we who have been created and redeemed by God should honor Him as God, and these exercises are profitable for instruction and for arousing fear and faith in us. And in these exercises we must keep in mind the statement of Christ, "How much more will your heavenly Father give His Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" Therefore, we must be pray to be taught, guided, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit. And whenever we pray, we must determine with certainty and remember that the Holy Spirit is effacious through our meditation on the Gospel. - Philip Melanchthon, *Loci Communes - 1543* p. 233