One expects theologians and pastors to say that prayer is important. Talk is cheap. Yet Spurgeon’s high regard for prayer would prove itself in his life and ministry. He would often get especially passionate when pleading with his people to pray: “Oh, for God’s sake, for his name and glory’s sake, if you would honour the Father, if you would let Jesus see of the travail of his soul, wrestle together with us in your prayers for the divine working.”1 Every week, it was the Monday night