Martin Luther - Praying According to God’s Will

Here’s a good example of learning to pray according to God’s will: “Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant Reformation, had a good friend and assistant by the name of Friedrich Myconius. In 1540, Myconius became sick and was expected to die. On his deathbed he wrote a tender farewell letter to Luther. When Luther read the message, he immediately sent a reply: ‘I command thee in the name of God to live because I still have need of thee in the work of reforming the church...The Lord will never let me hear that thou art dead, but will permit thee to survive me. For this I am praying, this is my will, and may my will be done, because I seek only to glorify the name of God.’ “While those words might seem bold and brash, the fact is Myconius, who had already lost the ability to speak when Luther’s reply came, soon recovered from his illness and lived six more years. He died two months after Luther did.” (Ray Pritchard’s book, Beyond All You Could Ask or Think).