When I was a student in seminary, a choice man of God named Harry Ironside used to come and teach. I remember on one occasion somebody came up and said, "Dr. Ironside, I understand you get up early every morning to read and study your Bible."
"Yes, I' ve been doing that all my life."
"Well, how do you manage to do it?" the inquirer asked. "Do you pray about it?"
"No," Ironside replied. "I get up." --Howard G. Hendricks, and William D. Hendricks, Living By the Book, Moody Press, 1991, p. 334)