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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: Therefore you should say: My prayer is as precious, holy, and pleasing
to God as that of St. Paul or of the most holy saints. This is the
reason: For I will gladly grant that he is holier in his person, but
not on account of the commandment; since God does not regard prayer on
account of the person, but on account of His word and obedience
thereto. For on the commandment on which all the saints rest their
prayer I, too, rest mine. Moreover I pray for the same thing for which
they all pray and ever have prayed; besides, I have just as great a
need of it as those great saints, yea, even a greater one than they.
Let this be the first and most important point, that all our prayers
must be based and rest upon obedience to God, irrespective of our
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