Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Jones frames prayer not as passive petition but as active partnership: human faculties (mind, will, imagination, conscience) are exercised most purely when aligned with God’s purposes. The language of “co-operation” suggests synergy—God’s intention for human capacities is fulfilled when they are consciously directed toward divine ends, so prayer becomes a mode of moral and spiritual agency rather than escape. In this view, prayer is formative (it trains the self), relational (it “links” creature and Creator), and vocational (it helps “work out” what God intended in creating persons). The quote reflects a practical, action-oriented spirituality characteristic of Jones’s evangelistic and devotional writing.